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dslink

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Registered: 2012-02-23

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A new "Mini" install ISO/Image

I find myself downloading the Arch ISO more often than not and it has made me wonder why Arch doesn't have a socalled "Mini" iso. Most distros have one even the *BSD's do. I like I bet many users do an online install getting all of the packages from one of the mirror sites and not from the installation medium  Before people complain I wouldn't mind putting the work in for it.

WorMzy

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Re: A new "Mini" install ISO/Image

I bet many users do an online install getting all of the packages from one of the mirror sites and not from the installation medium

All of them do. Arch only has a net-install option..

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frostschutz

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Registered: 2013-11-15

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Re: A new "Mini" install ISO/Image

You can find this "mini" ISO here https://releng.archlinux.org/pxeboot/ it's just 1.0MB

Never tried it myself though.

Anyone have a link to the actual kernel/initrd that pxe iso will be downloading... (or does it actually load the full iso, that would be silly)

might be a better option to grab those directly and then load them with a regular bootloader. That's what I do for the Debian netinst, it's the same thing as but smaller than their mini iso...

Last edited by frostschutz (2016-04-18 22:32:24)

Centzilius

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Re: A new "Mini" install ISO/Image

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Anyone have a link to the actual kernel/initrd that pxe iso will be downloading... (or does it actually load the full iso, that would be silly)

might be a better option to grab those directly and then load them with a regular bootloader. That's what I do for the Debian netinst, it's the same thing as but smaller than their mini iso...

I'll just drop this link here. I hope it will help. https://releng.archlinux.org/pxeboot/bo … 64.inc.cfg

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frostschutz

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Re: A new "Mini" install ISO/Image

Ah, very nice. So it's about 30 MiB. Thanks!

Last edited by frostschutz (2016-04-19 11:27:26)