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Hello !
I have recently managed to murder my CD drive but I still want to install Arch. Unfortunately, my crappy motherboard does not support booting from USB sticks. So, I got myself the unetbootin executable and fed the Arch FTP .iso to it.
Unfortunately, I get a kernel panic once the kernel tries to access the files on the non-existant CD during the boot process. Of course, this is to be expected since the files are on the .iso which is not mounted, but I have managed to launch Fedora Live this way. The difference was, Fedora drops to you to a shell from where you can mount the ISO and link it's contents to / and once it's done the boot process resumes normally. Arch on the other hand, dies at this point.
Is there any workaround around this, or are there any other alternative installation methods that do not involve CDs or USBs ? Also, preferably do not involve chrooting from another distro as I don't have Linux installed ATM.
Any ideas ?
Last edited by LittlePenguinZ (2009-01-09 02:46:01)
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It is possible to install Arch Linux. I think you got struck up at the package selection.
If you are using usb disk for installation and it will not be mounted as CD rom hence
we have to mount it manually to see the package directory.
Let usb device be : /dev/sdb1
pkg source in : /src/core/pkg in this case
use mount -t vfat /dev/sdb1 /src
Now things will work fine....
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I'm stuck at the BOOT PROCESS ! The kernel crashes before I can access BASH, let alone launch the installer. It's impossible to do anything on that system.
(edited the OP a little, hope it will get a little more clear)
Last edited by LittlePenguinZ (2009-01-09 02:42:58)
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I assume you can download Faunos and create a USB flash drive on another machine.
This will lead to a program which will load arch material into your hard drive and you can then boot on the drive.
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I have created the USB disk with 2008.03 iso image (core) using unebootin and works fine with the mounting part I mentioned. The other option is as mentioned by lilsirecho or you can use an arch image file to create the usb disk.
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