[SOLVED] Old-school installation method?

kcy29581 · 2012-03-31 04:48:09

Hi all,

Sorry if I am missing this, but I seem to remember before the AIF days, the installation method was to use pacman to install the base after setting up the partitions manually etc. Is this method documented somewhere? I can find small nuggets of info in the forums but nothing 100% concrete.

Thanks

Last edited by kcy29581 (2012-06-05 22:55:28)

tomk · 2012-03-31 08:12:54

Not sure where you'd find old documentation, but pacman's -r/--root flag is probably what you're looking for.

karol · 2012-03-31 12:13:10

I still opt for installing just the minimum required packages during the installation and I use pacman for further customization when I have the base system up and running.

kcy29581 · 2012-04-01 10:47:29

The reason I ask, is because I'm trying to install on a btrfs filesystem, learning as I go along. I obviously cannot use AIF for this, and some wiki/forum posts do have the "exactl" same instructions, leading to confusion. I was wondering if there is a doc somewhere saying "right, now run pacman --blah, to install a base Arch system on your partition".

Thanks.

lucke · 2012-04-01 10:53:45

Maybe https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/In … ting_Linux will be of interest to you?

I haven't installed Arch for ages, but can't you create the partition/the filesystem in one of the virtual consoles and then use it in the installer?

Last edited by lucke (2012-04-01 10:55:39)

bergersau · 2012-04-01 10:56:54

I found this
http://web.archive.org/web/200208060356 … nstall.php
on the wayback machine.

I don't know if it will be of any help though.

sevenfourk · 2012-04-01 11:54:16

bergersau wrote:

I found this
http://web.archive.org/web/200208060356 … nstall.php
on the wayback machine.
I don't know if it will be of any help though.

That was funny, yeah :-)

kcy29581 · 2012-04-02 05:02:37

Thanks guys, I'll check the above links out. They seem to be what I'm looking for.

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