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Before installing Arch, I installed it and got the Gnome DE up and running in a virtual machine to make sure I could do it. Now I'm installing it on my real hard drive, but I'd like to avoid re-downloading all the packages I already installed in my virtual machine. I've copied all of the files from /var/cache/pacman/pkg to the same place on my hard drive, but it looks like pacman is re-downloading the packages anyway. This method worked for me when I installed Ubuntu, is there a way to do this in Arch?
Last edited by kwbauson (2010-08-23 23:43:19)
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http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Cus … FDVD.2Fiso
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Server = file:///mnt/cdrom/arch/pkg
Of course you have to adjust the cache localization :-)
Last edited by karol (2010-08-23 21:06:33)
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Are you sure that pacman is re-downloading the same packages and not newer versions? If the versions are the same then maybe the installation on the virtual machine is a different architecture.
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you have to copy them to /mnt/root/var/cache/pacman/pkg instead.
im not sure if its /mnt/root/ or simply /mnt/ you gotta check that out
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I forgot that my virtual machine was 32bit and I was installing 64bit. Thanks anyway though!
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Please mark as solved, thanks.
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