Arch Linux

KarateCowboy

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Registered: 2009-02-06

Posts: 7

USB image with 2.6.28

Hi guys,

Arch seems really cool. I just can't do anything with it.

You see, I installed it on an MSI Wind laptop.  No CD ROM drive or DVD.  I can't use any networking stuff because of the 2.6.25 kernel.  So I need to do an install from a USB thumb drive but don't know where to get an img with 2.6.28 on it.  Nor do I know how to make one.  Has anyone encountered similar problems?

-KC

ahcaliskan

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From: Sweden

Registered: 2008-10-29

Posts: 174

Re: USB image with 2.6.28

Try arch 2009.02 RC usb image:

http://dev.archlinux.org/~aaron/archiso/

Last edited by ahcaliskan (2009-02-07 00:05:33)

area

Member

Registered: 2008-09-18

Posts: 43

Re: USB image with 2.6.28

I had the same problem when i first started using arch on a regular laptop.  Just download the kernel package to a flash drive and install it from there....

pacman -U /<path to usb drive>/kernel26.pkg.tar.gz

If you get dependency problems just do the same with those packages FIRST. If i remember correctly though, the (3?) dependencies the new kernel has will be satisfied by whatever came on the usb img.