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There doesn't seem to be an up to date official way of getting arch onto a machine without the use of a install cd. As is usually the case when you want to install archlinux on a dedicated root server.
There are some howtos floating around, but they all involve hacking the rescue environment in order to get a temporary pacman installation going, which allows you then to install the "base" selection of apps and dependencies.
Once that is done, the user can enter a chroot and proceed from there.
I'm wondering, why is that even necessary. Wouldn't it be a LOT easier to simply provide an up to date tar archive which the user can download and extract and THEN chroot into a basic arch environment.
This is, for example how gentoo does it. You download a stage3 archive. Unpack it, mount proc dev and sys and then chroot into it and proceed with the further installation.
This approach seems to be a lot easier than trying to deal with the deficiencies of a hoster's rescue environment and trying to get a working pacman on there.
Just my two cents.
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Typical. Searching for related posts came up empty, since I didn't think of any fitting search terms, so I go to browse manually, and there is a post with someone suggesting the same thing. Oh well.
I've checked the wiki page mentioned:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/In … ting_Linux
However a lot of that information is outdated or contains dead links.
The tip about loop mountin a install iso might be the ticket. Hopefully I won't ever run into a situation where the hoster's rescue environment prevents me from doing that.
Last edited by ChojinDSL (2011-04-07 15:02:41)
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