[arch-general] Customising arch iso

Damien Churchill damoxc at gmail.com
Fri Mar 12 15:15:14 CET 2010


On 12 March 2010 13:19, Dieter Plaetinck <dieter at plaetinck.be> wrote:
> On Fri, 12 Mar 2010 06:57:46 -0600
> Dan McGee <dpmcgee at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 6:29 AM, Dieter Plaetinck
>> <dieter at plaetinck.be> wrote:
>> > you could also try a netinstall cd and enable the testing repository
>> > in /tmp/pacman.conf.  IIRC aif (the installer) uses pacman with that
>> > config file, so it might just work, although i never tried it
>> > myself. if you are not afraid of looking at bash scripts, look at
>> > the source code of aif then you'll see how exactly
>> > it works.
>>
>> A netinstall using a kernel without the necessary network drivers
>> might prove hard to use. :)
>>
>> -Dan
>
> don't laugh :P i realised it just after hitting submit ;)
>
> Dieter
>

Using the core installing then just upgrading kernel26 and
kernel26-firmware to 2.6.33 worked just in case anyone was wondering.
Got networking up finally :)


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