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#1 2011-01-19 04:40:20

Rerven
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No official archlive cd/img from Archlinux

i just searched over internet again and again and found very few group/people maintaining archlive cd personally without benefits involves but due to their intrerests, as i learnt arch is a very popular distro nowadays, why did not arch linux offical try to learn and release an optional image/distribution for arch live cd to save some parts of user's time, esp i meant for newbies? as i can foresee many geeks may be object to my opinion, but i think this is a workable way for newbie to get better understanding for arch linux.

why did ubuntu so much fast recently? i think there must be some things arch could learn from.  well, this is just a piece of suggestion.

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#2 2011-01-19 04:44:13

Allan
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Re: No official archlive cd/img from Archlinux

The install CD is a live CD...    It give a fairly accurate impression of what you get once you install Arch.

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#3 2011-01-19 05:14:11

karol
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Re: No official archlive cd/img from Archlinux

Arch is not really for newbies. sorry. You better stick with Ubuntu.

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#4 2011-01-19 10:08:59

Mr. Alex
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Re: No official archlive cd/img from Archlinux

How can Arch be LiveCD if it contains nothing? And if you want have someting when LiveCD is booted - why not look for something else? Like SystemRescueCD. Arch's idea does not suit for LiveCD in my opinion.

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#5 2011-01-19 10:11:53

wonder
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Re: No official archlive cd/img from Archlinux

Mr. Alex wrote:

How can Arch be LiveCD if it contains nothing? And if you want have someting when LiveCD is booted - why not look for something else? Like SystemRescueCD. Arch's idea does not suit for LiveCD in my opinion.

a LiveCD means that you have a linux environment running from a cd.

Since when a LiveCD imply running a graphical interface?


Give what you have. To someone, it may be better than you dare to think.

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#6 2011-01-19 10:14:28

kikinovak
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Re: No official archlive cd/img from Archlinux

Rerven wrote:

as i can foresee many geeks may be object to my opinion, but i think this is a workable way for newbie to get better understanding for arch linux.

why did ubuntu so much fast recently? i think there must be some things arch could learn from.  well, this is just a piece of suggestion.

Your crystal ball seems right on that point. I think there are some things you could learn from Arch. Well, this is just a piece of suggestion smile


Dyslexics have more fnu.

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#7 2011-01-19 10:16:13

Mr. Alex
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Re: No official archlive cd/img from Archlinux

wonder, I wasn't really talking about GUI. It was more about different tools that you may need on a LiveCD. Otherwise why do you want to run a LiveCD if it contains almost nothing to fix your problems. That's why SystemRescueCD is good - you don't need to run X there at all and you get a lot of emergency tools in CLI (yet in GUI if you feel like it).

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#8 2011-01-19 10:19:23

Allan
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Re: No official archlive cd/img from Archlinux

The Arch install CD has pacman and chroot.  That is enough to solve most problems.

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#9 2011-01-19 10:20:18

karol
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Re: No official archlive cd/img from Archlinux

But what does rescuing your system has to do with Arch?? Unless you fscked your Arch system, that is - than do as Allan suggested.

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#10 2011-01-19 10:21:47

wonder
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From: Bucharest, Romania
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Re: No official archlive cd/img from Archlinux

Mr. Alex wrote:

wonder, I wasn't really talking about GUI. It was more about different tools that you may need on a LiveCD. Otherwise why do you want to run a LiveCD if it contains almost nothing to fix your problems. That's why SystemRescueCD is good - you don't need to run X there at all and you get a lot of emergency tools in CLI (yet in GUI if you feel like it).


the arch live cd contains a lot of rescue tools, it has severals partitioning apps, all the filesystem tools, you can install any package from the repos.
what do you need more?


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