On Tue, 2010-05-18 at 03:17 -0400, Keith Hinton wrote: > Hi. > I've recently seen threads on this list pertaining to interesting issues with > the Arch Linux core isos. > I haven't had that problem in my primary tests of those Isos in particular. > Is there any reason why a successful installation may occur in one > environment over another? Or is this a common Linux problem. > Thanks for answering my question. > I hope that the rest of you folks have successful Core installations, however > a net-install is the only real way to isntall Arch Linux. > I do not see the point of the core installer media, personally. Why would one > wish to use that? A snapshot will become outdated in a flash, and all of you > archers know this. As soon as a newer package version is available the entire > snapshot is outdated instantly. Or will be, given a few > weeks/months/years/whatever. > I therefore have always installed from what I believe to be the Arch-Way, > wich is installing via the Internet alone to have an updated system. > Does anyone agree/disagree with my idea on the proper way to install Arch? :D > Regards, --Keith
My prefered way of installing any linux distribution is using bootstrap tools. For Debian this is debootstrap, for Archlinux this is pacman -r. The point of having an installer with packages on the ISO is that you don't always have the possibility to do a network installation.
