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I have a question, I´ve always wanted to build my own arch dist without the setup.
I know that there´s distributions like gentoo, but I don´t want to compile everything + it takes 2 day to install
So I wanted to know if anyone has a guide to install arch without the setup.
Thanks for any response.
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Use /arch/quickinst.
BTW.. what exactly does "my own arch dist" mean?
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Ok, thank you, I´ll try that now ^^
I meant, arch is almost doing everything, even though you have a lot of controll. I want to install arch more like its done in gentoo. I don´t want to follow a setup.
Thank you for the fast reply
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I got a little problem on the way
When I´ve mounted all the partitions and formatted them, then I need to download all the packages with the commad: /arch/quickinst ftp /mnt [Mirror] but it never gives me an option of mirrors, neither does the wiki say what mirror to use or what mirrors to use. I`ve tried the mirrors that´s used under the setup but it doesnt work
Thanks for any replay
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oops, my bad
I forgot to run dhcpd eth0 ^^
Now its working, and I found out that it gave me an examplemirror that working ^^
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I've been wondering if this could be done too. I got a USB drive that I'd like to install Arch on and would like to be able to do it from the desktop. Been thinking that I'd have to download the core packages and extract them on the drive and then chroot in. Has anyone tried this?
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I've been wondering if this could be done too. I got a USB drive that I'd like to install Arch on and would like to be able to do it from the desktop. Been thinking that I'd have to download the core packages and extract them on the drive and then chroot in. Has anyone tried this?
I would suggest using qemu or any other virtualization soft - you boot the install cd inside it and make the install onto the usb drive. This way you don't need to do it the hardcore way.
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Hmm, funny how I never thought of this before. Wonder if I could just use the Arch installer. Already loaded my USB flash drive but looked at aif and looks like I could just do:
pacman -S aif
aif -p interactive
Anyone tried this?
Setting Up a Scripting Environment | Proud donor to wikipedia - link
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- quickinst is gone.
- aif is just some shell code which wraps around calls to sfdisk, pacman etc. if you want to all details, look at aif's automatic procedure and see which functions it calls to do what. but basically it's this: partition, make filesystems, mount them, install packages (pacman --root), install bootloader, make sure your menu.lst, fstab etc are correct and reboot.
- gen2ly: yes that should work.
< Daenyth> and he works prolifically
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