Looks like there are a few bugs related to yours.
Anyway you still can install arch from stable iso, and update it afterwards
Or use archboot
Another point is that the core install image is very useful as a rescuedisk.
What tools do you find are missing from the netinstall image then, I wonder. I only have netinstall images burnt/on USB stick, and I boot from them whenever my system is unbootable. Haven't ever run into anything that was missing there.
If you ask me, besides adapted install scripts and packages, there's nothing that differentiates the netinstall from the core image. I might be wrong about that though, but I have not noticed any differences in functionality.
]]>Since they're different, redundancy is very much in the eyes of the beholder....
Personally i tend to use the netinstall FROM the core image, so i have both install and resuce disk functionality in 1 image.
"Redundancy" does have two meanings...
]]>Example : in case of boot problems that can be solved by chrooting into the existing install, this is easily done with the core install.
Personally i tend to use the netinstall FROM the core image, so i have both install and resuce disk functionality in 1 image.
]]>Since they're different, redundancy is very much in the eyes of the beholder....
]]>but for mee is redundant, you say is the same except for packages
in other words a unique disk conttraining the net-install AND packages may by the same as a have 2 cd
you add "unless you have no access to internet or bandwidth limitations. If that is the case, using Arch is not such a good idea anyway" making for mee a little dedundant having 2 cd if both functionalitis can be merged in one CD and "reduce" cd need to build from 6 to 3
but is my opinion and devs have the last word
]]>The netinstall image will pull all packages from the internet, be it a recent or an old netinstall release. If you were to use a core image that was released e.g. yesterday, you would install the package from the image. However, a few months later, you'd probably be pulling all those core packages from the internet anyway.
]]>Question: If arch-core and arch-netinstall are both capable of the same thing, download packeges and intall them from internet and intall them from the CD
what is the objetive of having 2 cd separated if tose both have the same capabilities???
core has the base and base-devel packages on the image while net install downloads from the net during install. Therefore the core packages will be older (circa the time the core image was generated for mass distribution) But getting the core installation where you have your basic network setup and pacman are the same on both images
]]>I'm getting ready to do a fresh netinstall, but I get very wary of doing it during periods of change where there may be discrepancies requiring manual intervention and what's on the current .iso and/or documented in the installation guide.
Any idea how long I should lay low until everything is in synch again?
Is there anything in the pipeline that's gonna bite me?
I've been around long enough to know that change is constant.
I'm just looking for a little lull in the action when I can safely jump back in.