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dtvanrip

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Registered: 2015-06-10

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Installing X86_64 Arch from a persistent i686 thumb drive

So what I want to know is how to install X86_64 Arch from my persistent i686 thumb drive.

I created the persistent usb because I wanted to be able to use arch when im borrowing a computer, or to use it to install arch if i get a new computer, or reinstall arch after distro-hopping.

I'm installing from the thumb drive to my laptop using the install script found at helmuthdu/aui script.
I want to be able to decide from the drive to install either X86_64, or i686. Where i'm having the problem is that I don't know what decides the architecture it's installing. Does it install i686 because my thumb drive os is i686, or is it something that the script is doing?

If it's because the usb is i686 is there anyway to circumvent that and install X86_64 anyway?

Thanks.

jasonwryan

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Re: Installing X86_64 Arch from a persistent i686 thumb drive

That script is unsupported: moving to AUR Issues...

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Trilby

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Re: Installing X86_64 Arch from a persistent i686 thumb drive

Does it install i686 because my thumb drive os is i686

Yes.

...is there anyway to circumvent that and install X86_64 anyway?

Not that I am aware of.  If there is, I suspect it would take a lot of work to implement.  You can certainly change the arch in pacman.conf to download and install x86_64 packages to the target device, this part would be easy.  But you could not chroot into that system.  I don't know how the chroot'ed steps could be completed from the 'outside'.

Are flash drives really in that short of supply?  Or do you really not have any space left on the one you have to store the dual-iso and boot to that (many bootloaders can boot to an iso stored on the disk without having the iso "burned" to the disk overwriting it.)

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dtvanrip

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Registered: 2015-06-10

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Re: Installing X86_64 Arch from a persistent i686 thumb drive

Thanks for the help. I think I have about 2 gigabytes left on it, so I should be able to do that. I just thought it would be convienent to be able to do it from the persistent installation itself, but having the dual boot iso on there as well is fine.