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ILoveJapaneseGirls

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How to install Linux from a distro instead of booting a live cd?

Suppose you have Arch Linux installed in sda and you want to install a new copy in sdc, can you do it from your distro instead of booting with the installation cd?

Here's my sdc (75 GB):

/dev/sdc1   ntfs   100 MB
/dev/sdc2   ntfs    40 GB

those partitions are used by Windows 7, so there's another 35 GB for Linux.

Now here's the the problem: this latest Arch Linux install media is kinda complicated because it does not provide the AIF anymore. Also, the installation method differs a little from the old ones. Until 2011.08.19 I would partition the remaining space like this:

/dev/sdc3    extended   35 GB
 /dev/sdc5   ext2      100 MB   /boot
 /dev/sdc6   swap        1 GB   swap
 /dev/sdc7   ext4       15 GB   /
 /dev/sdc8   ext4       19 GB   /home

However this guide http://ebalaskas.gr/wiki/archlinux/netinstall shows a different (suposedly recommended) partition table for the new method.

So,

1) Is it possible to install Arch Linux from an already installed distro, including GRUB2?

2) Is it possible to use the partiton table style I provided?

And how to do it of course.

Thanks!

Rumor

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Re: How to install Linux from a distro instead of booting a live cd?

There is a wiki article on moving your current install from one HD to another here.

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ILoveJapaneseGirls

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Re: How to install Linux from a distro instead of booting a live cd?

Thanks Rumor, but although the computer is the same, I want to make a new install from scratch in the other HD, and that article does not help at all.

2ManyDogs

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Re: How to install Linux from a distro instead of booting a live cd?

2) Is it possible to use the partiton table style I provided?

Yes

And how to do it of course.

Use the Beginners' Guide. Just remember to create mountpoints for your separate partitions (and mount them) before you chroot.

Last edited by 2ManyDogs (2012-08-17 03:34:58)

ILoveJapaneseGirls

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Re: How to install Linux from a distro instead of booting a live cd?

Thanks 2ManyDogs, the mountpoints are created. Is there a way to "boot" the installation cd from gnome terminal? If this is possible I can get along with the rest since there is the Beginner's Guide and the other guide with screenshots.

WonderWoofy

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Re: How to install Linux from a distro instead of booting a live cd?

Check this article out

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/In … ting_Linux

Note that it says it is out of date because of pacman.  Really all you need to know is that pacman uses signed packages now, so it is now necessary to run the pacman-key stuff.  Or set SigLevel = Never in pacman.conf

Edit: IMHO the first method is preferred because it more closely resembles a regular install.  Ergo, you will be able to semi follow the beginners guide for config and such.

Last edited by WonderWoofy (2012-08-17 03:42:12)

ANOKNUSA

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Re: How to install Linux from a distro instead of booting a live cd?

You're making things stupefyingly complicated just because you're unwilling to learn something new.  More confusing, you're trying to avoid learning something new by... learning something else that's new to you.  Bite the bullet and boot the .iso;  that guide you refer to was made by a single Arch user, not the developers, and there is no "recommended" partition scheme; just do the same things you did with the other Arch installations, and follow the Installation/Beginner's Guide.

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