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