An alternative way to install Arch from another distribution, using ftp to fetch the packages, so you need an internet connection, is my 'archin' script (available on the download page of the larch website). I would be grateful for any feedback on it, positive or negative.
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No files found to copy in /config directory on media disk.
Looking for new packages to install on /dev/sda1, checking /packages directory...
After that the regular mkinitcpio error came up
::Initramfs completed - control passing to kinit
Cannot open root device dev(0,0)
...
The lines I put into grub were
title ArchCD
kernel (hd0,6)/isolinux/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda7 BOOTMEDIA=cd
initrd (hd0,6)/isolinux/initrd.imgtitle ArchCD
kernel (hd0,6)/isolinux/vmlinuz root=/dev/disk/by-label/Archcd BOOTMEDIA=cd
initrd (hd0,6)/isolinux/initrd.img
Neither of which worked.
I'm currently trying to install using the instructions given here and will put up a post letting you know if it worked or not.
I hope the information I've given helps,
Thanks,
Ravster
/dev/sda1 /boot ext2 defaults 0 1
/dev/sda2 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/sda3 / ext3 defaults 0 1
A second drive would be called /dev/sdb. Does the drive have 9 partitions? If so I guess you would have to set the above somewhat different, i.e. the numbers and /usr, /var, /home, aso.
fstab should also have:
none /dev/pts devpts defaults 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 ro,user,noauto,unhide 0 0
I hope this is what you meant.
As for the installation, don't you have an USB memory you could put the installation on?
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