[arch-general] installing

Jonathan Villatoro lacho8713 at gmail.com
Tue Oct 6 21:25:17 UTC 2015


I see. In that case, the link I tagged as [2] should be complementary to
either the beginner's guide [0] or the installation guide [1].

I guess there's no easier or harder option, but yeah, they're different in
a couple of aspects. Good luck, Bill!

Best regards,
Jonathan
El 5/10/2015 11:19, "Bill Cunningham" <billcun at suddenlink.net> escribió:

> Yes. The tarball that is called "bootstrap" It may be more or less
> complicated than an ISO. Since I have a linux distro I thought it would be
> easier. IDK though.
>
> Bill
>
>   ----- Original Message -----
>   From: Jonathan Villatoro
>   To: arch-general at archlinux.org
>   Sent: Sunday, October 04, 2015 6:09 PM
>   Subject: Re: [arch-general] installing
>
>
>   El oct 4, 2015 2:37 PM, "Martti Kühne" <mysatyre at gmail.com> escribió:
>   >
>   > On Sun, Oct 4, 2015 at 10:34 PM, Bill Cunningham <
> billcun at suddenlink.net>
>   wrote:
>   > >     Looks like a nice OS. I am running fedora. I have the tarball and
>   I'm having a little trouble. A directory called "root.x86_64" is created.
>   Do I want an ISO for a first time install? Or is the tarball complete and
>   OK?
>   >
>   By tarball, do you mean you downloaded the bootstrap image? [2]
>
>   > What tarball? How's it named and where did you find it?
>   > Generally, you want the ISO and prepare the place where you would
>   > intend to install arch to [0] [1].
>   Also this, if you meant the bootstrap tarball, please specify so
>   beforehand. Even though we're willing to help you, you need to be more
>   specific so we can understand what it is that you need help with.
>
>   > [0] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Beginners%27_guide
>   > [1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Installation_guide
>
>   [2]
>
> https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Install_from_existing_Linux#From_a_host_running_another_Linux_distribution
>
>   Best regards,
>   Jonathan
>


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