On 06/22/2013 01:02 PM, Thomas Bächler wrote: > Am 22.06.2013 18:00, schrieb Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi: >> 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 ;) > > Seem reasonable - are there any known failures with the wrong > architecture set? > >
No, just in case ;) -- Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi \cos^2\alpha + \sin^2\alpha = 1
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