[arch-general] Arch Linux Turkish Community @ 8th Free Software and Linux Festival

[Alper KANAT]

Yes I did.. But it turns out that the wiki is a bit old and needs to be
updated. I'm planning to update it while writing a Turkish one too..

The worst part is that new ISO images after (and including) 2008.06
doesn't even work. They always stalled due to the hooks for mounting
filesystems.

So instead, I used archboot which uses just ramfs for booting and
installing the whole system. Plus you need to mount or get the core
packages from somewhere. Tobias (tpowa) advices to use NFS but I got my
own solution (which I plan to get further)

I created a local mirror but you can do the same with just the core
packages. Then I served them via vsftpd on the local machine. With this
setup, I was able to install machines using PXE..

I had some more problems so I need to do more testing.. :) This mail has
became a how-to btw :P


Alper KANAT <alperkanat at raptiye.org>


Dieter Plaetinck wrote:
> On Fri, 17 Apr 2009 19:35:40 +0300
> Alper KANAT <tunix at raptiye.org> wrote:
> 
>> Hey There Guys,
>>
>> We'd love to tell you about the latest news. We were at our stand all
>> day long on the very first day of 8th Free Software and Linux
>> Festival. What we've done?
>>
>> * We've burnt 20 i686 and 10 x86_64 CD images and created paper CD
>> cases and gave everyone for free. (unfortunetly we were only capable
>> of doing 40 of them and 30 cases since especially the cases were so
>> expensive as they were the best quality available)
>>
>> * Made some installations for people who needs help
>>
>> * Printed nearly 30 Turkish installation manual and gave them with the
>> CD's..
>>
>> * Created a "Arch Linux on Tap" concept and made it available over the
>> network! :) They is very cool though since anyone can put the plug in
>> and install Arch with our very new and fresh Arch mirror (that have
>> i686 and x86_64 packages for core, testing, community, extra).
>>
>> We'll continue to do introduce Arch Linux to visitors of the festival
>> and help them to discover the beauty!
>>
>> We also have some pictures for you! :) Comments are welcome!
>>
>> http://www.flickr.com/photos/tunix/sets/72157616848517025/
>>
> 
> Hey man, great job.
> These booklets look really sweet
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/tunix/3450625770/in/set-72157616848517025/
> 
> And until now I had never heard of the mkpxelinux script.  And only 89
> lines long.. I'm gonna check it out because i like pxe installations.
> Did you just follow
> http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Install_Arch_from_network_(via_PXE) ?
> 
> 
> Dieter

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