pacstrap requires an internet connection to install Arch?

Jonnothin · 2013-05-22 16:46:51

So the install for Arch has changed quite a bit since I last tried it out. It's definitely different. Anyway I'm having issues getting my wireless network running because you use

wifi_menu device_name

now. According to the beginner's install guide I have to use that and it should just work, but the live cd through out an error saying it doesn't exist.

EDIT: The device exists, but it says that wifi_menu doesn't. I checked the device with iwconfig

So I was wondering if there is a way to install arch without an internet connection or is there a way to connect to a wpa2 private wireless network from the arch live cd?

You could do this before, but it doesn't work now.

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tomk · 2013-05-22 16:51:20

Connect manually i.e. using wpa_supplicant and dhcpcd.

Scimmia · 2013-05-22 16:55:30

The problem is that netctl got forgotten in the May install disk. https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/35079

Simplest answer is to use an older install disk until the June image comes out. Click on a mirror for your country and you should be able to find an older image.

Jonnothin · 2013-05-22 17:05:51

lol they forgot it!?! lol

I tried to find instructions on connecting manually, but I can't find what I used before. I did find another page, but it's missing some of the commands. Do you happen to know the commands or know where I can find them all?

tomk · 2013-05-22 17:06:58

Wiki's Wireless page has a Manual Setup section.

Jonnothin · 2013-05-22 17:09:36

So that's where I got the commands from before.

Don't know how I missed it this time.

Thanks everyone!

wingsuit · 2013-05-22 17:23:58

Scimmia wrote:

The problem is that netctl got forgotten in the May install disk. https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/35079
Simplest answer is to use an older install disk until the June image comes out. Click on a mirror for your country and you should be able to find an older image.

As a new user this really confused the shit out of me during my first install until I read that it was forgotten haha

teateawhy · 2013-05-22 19:42:56

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=162725

Trilby · 2013-05-22 19:50:52

I don't interpret it as bing forgotten by accident, I take it as it being left out by divine intervention. If one can't use the basic networking tools to connect, then they probably wont end up being happy without arch anyways.

Xyne · 2013-05-22 20:34:38

Trilby wrote:

I don't interpret it as bing forgotten by accident, I take it as it being left out by divine intervention. If one can't use the basic networking tools to connect, then they probably wont end up being happy without arch anyways.

You do realize that such a statement comes off as elitist rationalization of an evident mistake, right? There's a difference between "Arch doesn't hold your hand" and "Arch pulls the carpet out from under you to check your balance".

Incidentally, I find it somewhat perplexing that a rolling-release distro has such a strict ISO release schedule that we have to wait up to a month to fix a mistake that will affect so many people. Isn't baking a new iso as simple as running a script? Given that such a mistake went undetected, the releases do not seem to be (more than superficially) tested, so what else is there to do? I'm not asking rhetorically, so please point me to relevant information if you have any.

Trilby · 2013-05-22 20:47:08

The isos never used to come with NetworkManager, wicd, or netcfg running automatically. So I don't see how this is pulling a carpet out. Someone has slipped a carpet in recently that happened not to be in the last iso.

And if hoping arch users will learn just a little bit about their system rather than jumping right into a magic bullet is elitist, then I am certainly guilty. We could also start including yaourt in the isos, that'd be a nice soft carpet for new users.

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Xyne · 2013-05-22 22:04:38

Trilby wrote:

The isos never used to come with NetworkManager, wicd, or netcfg running automatically. So I don't see how this is pulling a carpet out. Someone has slipped a carpet in recently that happened not to be in the last iso.
And if hoping arch users will learn just a little bit about their system rather than jumping right into a magic bullet is elitist, then I am certainly guilty. We could also start including yaourt in the isos, that'd be a nice soft carpet for new users.

The package is expected to be on the ISO if you are following the beginner's guide, so a sudden omission of that package for a month without notice is likely to trip up anyone following that guide, as this thread clearly shows. Feel free to argue that Arch users should be able to work around errors in the beginner's guide (I would mostly agree). It remains a mistake nevertheless. Also, who said anything about it running automatically?

Trying to pass off the mistake as a good thing because it provides some minor additional challenge to would-be users is indeed elitist imo.

The hyperbole in your reply was unnecessary.

t0m5k1 · 2013-05-23 08:21:32

Xyne wrote:

Trying to pass off the mistake as a good thing because it provides some minor additional challenge to would-be users is indeed elitist imo.
The hyperbole in your reply was unnecessary.

could not agree more Xyne & alas this attitude is all over the place

Jonnothin · 2013-05-28 14:17:26

Here's to hoping that elitists and noobies can coexist (peacefully).

EDIT: and everyone inbetween.

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Spec-Chum · 2013-05-29 12:10:03

Confirmed that wifi-menu on tmxtga version https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=161347

Very nice and easy it is with the instructions on the same screen.

Should be default OMHO

cfr · 2013-06-01 01:02:21

Actually, if you read Trilby's post carefully, it is far from elitist. It just posits an evil source of divine intervention.

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