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Mirged

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Registered: 2023-06-15

Posts: 1

Loading to RAM/Hard Drive, Chrooting & Flashing Different ISO

Is it possible to on arch usb flash drive load all contents to ram or hard drive and chroot into new root and flash other iso into that usb? If possible, please help

nl6720

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Registered: 2016-07-02

Posts: 714

Re: Loading to RAM/Hard Drive, Chrooting & Flashing Different ISO

If you have at least ~2720 MiB free RAM, the root file system image from archlinux-2023.06.01-x86_64.iso will be copied to RAM automatically. You can ensure it's done by adding copytoram=y to the kernel command line. You'll see "Copying rootfs image to RAM" during boot.

After booting, if lsblk doesn't show the /run/archiso/bootmnt mountpoint, then you can do anything you like with the USB drive containing the ISO.