At any rate, to make installation on another computer quicker, could I go through install as normal, but once pacman is installed, mount the pkg dir via NFS as the local pkg dir and then pacman would install everything from there? I haven't really played with the install CD much, I've installed Arch twice and didn't have any trouble either time so I have delved into any internals at all but is there a reason this wouldn't work?
Just wondering if anybody has done this or if anybody thinks it wouldn't work. If it does I'll write a wiki page if anybody thinks it'd be useful.
Basically, you can do it two ways:
1. you can mount /var/cache/pacman/pkg as boxname/current/os/i686 for an anonymous ftp access. read, you just have to bring up an ftp server and boot the other box for a networkinstall. You will have to download current.db.tar.gz b4 and stuff it into the cache-dir.
2. you can use a set of scripts to redirect the output of pacman -r to the nfs mount and the have quickinst running on that box, which is the easier and more universal approach. you will have to create a list of packages you want to have on your new box b4.
I will post that when I have more time, tomorrow maybe.
-neri
]]>At any rate, to make installation on another computer quicker, could I go through install as normal, but once pacman is installed, mount the pkg dir via NFS as the local pkg dir and then pacman would install everything from there? I haven't really played with the install CD much, I've installed Arch twice and didn't have any trouble either time so I have delved into any internals at all but is there a reason this wouldn't work?
Just wondering if anybody has done this or if anybody thinks it wouldn't work. If it does I'll write a wiki page if anybody thinks it'd be useful.
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