On 06/22/2013 12:33 PM, Thomas Bächler wrote: > So, I heard a few people struggled installing Arch from another distro > or from a root server rescue system recently. The requirements for > pacman and friends are numerous and most systems don't have recent > enough libraries to easily meet them. > > Setting up Arch on a root server should be as easy as this: > * Boot rescue system, make sure you have Linux 2.6.32 or later > * Download tarball from Arch, extract to /tmp/root.x86_64/ > * Set up partitions and such, mount to /tmp/root.x86_64/mnt/ > * chroot /tmp/root.x86_64/ (well, also some bind-mounts) > * pacman-key --populate archlinux > * pacstrap /mnt base and follow the installation guide > > I'd like to generate such tarballs regularly (monthly like our ISOs?) > and put them on our mirrors, unless there are objections. > > I took the liberty of writing a small script: > https://paste.xinu.at/ixbqt/ > > These are the resulting files: > > total 143M > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 71M 22. Jun 17:13 > archlinux-bootstrap-2013.06.22-i686.tar.gz > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 73M 22. Jun 17:15 > archlinux-bootstrap-2013.06.22-x86_64.tar.gz > > Note that they are only gzipped, because we can rely on tar and gzip > being widely available. > > Any comments? >
Good,
I suggest to use "Architecture = auto" and use "setarch ${arch}
pacstrap...". In this way, scriptlets will be executed in the right
architecture ;)
Have a nice day.
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Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi
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