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Christian

15 Oct 2011 15 Oct '11

9:48 p.m.

Hi all, I just have a question and I really need to install Arch. Unfortunatly, I only have the 2010-05 release CD here and I am not able to burn the new one. Is it correct that it will not be able to download the system and install it? If not, are there any other ways for me to get this installed? Many thanks for any help, Christian

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Martti Kühne

15 Oct 15 Oct

10:02 p.m.

On Sat, Oct 15, 2011 at 11:48 PM, Christian wrote:

Hi all, I just have a question and I really need to install Arch. Unfortunatly, I only have the 2010-05 release CD here and I am not able to burn the new one. Is it correct that it will not be able to download the system and install it? If not, are there any other ways for me to get this installed? Many thanks for any help, Christian

Hey, I recently installed arch using a PCLinuxOS live cd from about the same time. Basically you have to get pacman working and stick to instructions on installing packages in the right places, eg. you can easily set up an arch chroot on any existing linux. see [1] and [2], my blog howto which circumvents the regular installer [3]. pacman --root is your friend. :-) cheers! mar77i [1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Install_bundled_32-bit_system_in_Arch64 [2] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Install_from_Existing_Linux [3] http://mar77i.blogspot.com/2011/08/kde-on-virtual-archlinux-machine.html

Martti Kühne

10:15 p.m.

On Sat, Oct 15, 2011 at 11:48 PM, Christian wrote:

Hi all, I just have a question and I really need to install Arch. Unfortunatly, I only have the 2010-05 release CD here and I am not able to burn the new one. Is it correct that it will not be able to download the system and install it? If not, are there any other ways for me to get this installed? Many thanks for any help, Christian

Uh, I might have shot out of specifically answering your question. You can upgrade a live arch boot easily if you can get network running and just pacman -Syu into memory. I guess the installer won't be upgraded though, but maybe you can still use it anyway? sorry for the noise. cheers! mar77i

Christopher Richard

10:22 p.m.

You should be able to install 2010 and do a pacman -syu On Oct 15, 2011 2:48 PM, "Christian" wrote:

Hi all, I just have a question and I really need to install Arch. Unfortunatly, I only have the 2010-05 release CD here and I am not able to burn the new one. Is it correct that it will not be able to download the system and install it? If not, are there any other ways for me to get this installed? Many thanks for any help, Christian

Leandro Costa

10:26 p.m.

Just run a pacman -Syu after the installation and you will get the current system. ;) 2011/10/15 Christopher Richard

You should be able to install 2010 and do a pacman -syu On Oct 15, 2011 2:48 PM, "Christian" wrote:

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Hi all, I just have a question and I really need to install Arch. Unfortunatly, I only have the 2010-05 release CD here and I am not able to burn the new one. Is it correct that it will not be able to download the system and install it? If not, are there any other ways for me to get this installed? Many thanks for any help, Christian

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Christian

10:33 p.m.

Hi all, Thanks a lot for your replies. I have the network installation CD of Arch here so then, what you are saying is that it should download the old packages and then I just upgrade the system with pacman after it has installed? On 2011-10-15 at 19:26 Leandro Costa wrote:

Just run a pacman -Syu after the installation and you will get the current system. ;)

2011/10/15 Christopher Richard

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You should be able to install 2010 and do a pacman -syu On Oct 15, 2011 2:48 PM, "Christian" wrote:

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Hi all, I just have a question and I really need to install Arch. Unfortunatly, I only have the 2010-05 release CD here and I am not able to burn the new one. Is it correct that it will not be able to download the system and install it? If not, are there any other ways for me to get this installed? Many thanks for any help, Christian

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John K Pate

10:43 p.m.

On Sun, 2011-10-16 at 00:33 +0200, Christian wrote:

Hi all, Thanks a lot for your replies. I have the network installation CD of Arch here so then, what you are saying is that it should download the old packages and then I just upgrade the system with pacman after it has installed?

Yes. Refer to http://www.archlinux.org/news/ and the forum if you run into any snags, but this should work fine. John == http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/s0930006/ -- The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336.

Lorenzo Bandieri

16 Oct 16 Oct

11:37 a.m.

Hi Christian, Accidentally, I installed Arch just the day before the new installation cd came out, so my experience could be useful to you. I had no problems in the installation phase, but when I rebooted my system, I was welcomed by a broken installation: apparently, grub didn't find the kernel. The explaination was here: http://www.archlinux.org/news/changes-to-kernel-package-and-filenames/ GRUB could not find the kernel because the name was changed with the 3.0 version. So, you have to remember to change the default kernel name in your grub.conf. I had no other problems. HTH, Lorenzo 2011/10/16 John K Pate

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Hi all, Thanks a lot for your replies. I have the network installation CD of Arch here so then, what you are saying is that it should download the old packages and then I just upgrade

On Sun, 2011-10-16 at 00:33 +0200, Christian wrote: the system with pacman after it has installed?

Yes. Refer to http://www.archlinux.org/news/ and the forum if you run into any snags, but this should work fine.

John

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