On Sat, 2007-03-31 at 18:36 -0400, Leif Thande wrote: > For your information, you can access the files in the ISO by multiple ways. > > If your are using Windows, you can use an archive manager like Winrar > or a program like DaemonTools or Alcohol 120% to simulate putting the > disk in the computer (pretty useful to avoid useless cd burning). > > If you use Linux, you can mount the disk by using the following command : > > mount -o loop -t iso9660 /path/to/image.iso /destination > > you need to create the destination directory first, generally in /mnt/ > > Voilà!
Thanks for the tips. I haven't used Windows for some time, but I burned the ISO (in Debian Etch, which is what I've been using) and browsed through the installation instructions with gedit before booting the CD-ROM. Easy as pie. Plus there were instructions on how to access the docs on the first screen, right after booting into the ISO. The installation went very smoothly, smoother than the last time I installed Arch. Either I was less inept, or the install routine has been improved -- probably both! :-) Unfortunately, I had a problem afterwards. I installed 'gnome' and it went *very* slowly. It took hours to download all the packages. I'm guessing the mirrors are being hit hard by the new release. I didn't change any of the defaults in pacman.conf. I remember seeing a message not long ago, here or from the Planet Arch RSS feed, about too many users using a particular mirror or something, so I didn't want to monkey around with anything and mess things up further. Anyway, I went to bed so I haven't really done much with Arch yet except get it installed, which is a good enough accomplishment for one day anyway. I'll try again later on and see if things improve. I don't have time right now to play around with it. -- Michael M. ++ Portland, OR ++ USA "No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream." --S. Jackson _______________________________________________ arch mailing list [email protected] http://archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch
