Complete install image

sDoky · 2008-10-13 16:35:30

Hi fellas, I am experiencing some sort of difficulty... I like this distro a lot. There's just one catch, every time I install it I have to download the gnome packages again. I have ordered new hard drive for my desktop and I intend to install arch once more on this drive but I do not want to download those packages again, not anymore. I have all of them in /var/cache/pacman/pkg the only problem is how to give them to the install program. I tried to add them to the bootable iso and then burning it, didn't boot, mount usb flash during the installation to the directory he displayd to mount it to... gave me an error... I am trying that in advance in VirtualBox... Can anyone help me...??? I do not have slow line but to download 600MB every time I install is a little bit making the start less comfortable.

PS I even tried to install package from the dir after standard installation and it still wanted to download the other packages from the internet... and I definetely do not have time for that, besides this way would be seriously lame...

Last edited by sDoky (2008-10-13 16:37:14)

rson451 · 2008-10-13 16:53:41

Do a normal install, then copy all the packages to /var/cache/pacman/pkg/ from your usb drive. Then when doing an -Syu, it will pull those packages from your local cache rather than the internet.

sDoky · 2008-10-13 19:09:04

Not so sure... I will try that (not sure if I already did or not) in VirtualBox...

Thanks anyway

Arch Linux

#1 2008-10-13 16:35:30

Complete install image

#2 2008-10-13 16:53:41

Re: Complete install image

#3 2008-10-13 19:09:04

Re: Complete install image

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