[arch-dev-public] Bootstrap images for installing Arch from another system

[Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi]

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
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