Install Arch using a ppp connection

Moltke · 2018-09-27 21:28:56

Hi everyone! Hope you're all having a nice life!

Is it possible to install Arch using a ppp connection? I searched the forum and read here https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ppp but didn't find anything that answers my question.

Thanks.

Last edited by Moltke (2018-09-27 21:29:29)

TheSaint · 2018-09-28 00:18:53

I did a long long time ago. For your condition you should get the ppp package before you start the image installation. Then it won't be much difficult to connect.
As far as I recall, I was using wvdial to get the connection. Even doing by that it will take to have it downloaded by another system.

Last edited by TheSaint (2018-10-03 00:38:14)

Moltke · 2018-10-02 23:08:53

@TheSaint thanks for your answer and sorry for the late reply. I've been looking, reading on how to approach this procedure. I want to reinstall my arch system since it won't update. I didn't update/upgrade the system for months and now I can't do it. The reason for this is that months ago I started having issues with my wired connection, as matter of fact it's been down for months. I recently got this usb modem and ran

$ sudo pacman  -Syu

but it didn't work. So I decided to reinstall it using this usb modem.
I've been reading here https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ppp here http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/PPP-HOWTO/index.html and here https://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Leased-Line/pppd.html as well as taking a look at the ppp conf files in /etc/ppp so I can get an idea of how this works. I booted arch from a USB stick to check whether ppp files were on it and I could confirm that they indeed exist in the live environment. I ran "pppd" without any arguments just to see what happened and it complaint about requiring some args and showed a help file, so it seemed to me that the ppp package is already there. So I think all I have to do is to edit some of these ppp config files in /etc/ppp the way that last link (leased-line/pppd.html) above says and then run some trials and errors I guess.

Last edited by Moltke (2018-10-02 23:10:19)

TheSaint · 2018-10-03 00:42:37

There's another way, if you prefer. Just get the package list from the PPP's computer and download from another. Then copy the downloaded files into /var/cache/pacman/pkg.

Moltke · 2018-10-03 01:32:18

TheSaint wrote:

There's another way, if you prefer. Just get the package list from the PPP's computer and download from another. Then copy the downloaded files into /var/cache/pacman/pkg.

I'm not sure I'm following you. Are you suggesting a way to update/upgrade my system? Or how to get the ppp package? I thought of downloading the system's base base-devel packages, create a local repo and install arch from there as explained on the wiki. That's plan b in case plan a fails. Are you suggesting a plan c? There's also a plan d: that my ISP came and fix this once and for all.

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#1 2018-09-27 21:28:56

Install Arch using a ppp connection

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Re: Install Arch using a ppp connection

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Re: Install Arch using a ppp connection

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