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hvnsweeting

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[Solved] Offline install base system with only CD

As I read on the wiki

Setup network in the live installation environment
The installer need network connection to download and install packages. So network have to be setup first.

Can I (if yes how) install just base or addition base-devel with only CD installation media?

Another questions, if that CD doesn't contain install package, what does it contains in it 384M ?

(I just try to install base Arch on virtual machine and I don't want to waste much time to wait it to download things on my slow internet)

Last edited by hvnsweeting (2012-08-19 16:43:55)

yaffare

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Re: [Solved] Offline install base system with only CD

Can I (if yes how) install just base or addition base-devel with only CD installation media?

The new image is netinstall only. It was mentioned in the news.

Another questions, if that CD doesn't contain install package, what does it contains in it 384M ?

The live cd itself.

- What you can do is remaster the official-iso and put the core packages in /var/cache/pacman/pkg. This is not an offline installation.
  You still need net, but for testing in virtual machine you can install quicker until your cached packages are out of date again.
  https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Re … nstall_ISO
- You can set up a network shared pacman cache, so that the packages in virtual machine are downloaded from your real machine.
  https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ne … cman_cache

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DSpider

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Re: [Solved] Offline install base system with only CD

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pa … _USB_stick

~380 MB because it contains both architectures (190 MB + 190 MB).

Last edited by DSpider (2012-08-19 11:55:17)

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hvnsweeting

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Re: [Solved] Offline install base system with only CD

thank you all, I got it.

DSpider

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Re: [Solved] Offline install base system with only CD

Ok, can you say a few words on what you actually did to solve it? This is so that other people (including yourself sometimes) may find useful.

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