Re: [arch-general] A question about installing Arch

[Lorenzo Bandieri]

Hi Christian,

Accidentally, I installed Arch just the day before the new installation cd
came out, so my experience could be useful to you.

I had no problems in the installation phase, but when I rebooted my system,
I was welcomed by a broken installation: apparently, grub didn't find the
kernel.

The explaination was here:
http://www.archlinux.org/news/changes-to-kernel-package-and-filenames/ GRUB
could not find the kernel because the name was changed with the 3.0 version.

So, you have to remember to change the default kernel name in your
grub.conf. I had no other problems.

HTH,

Lorenzo

2011/10/16 John K Pate 

> On Sun, 2011-10-16 at 00:33 +0200, Christian wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > Thanks a lot for your replies.
> > I have the network installation CD of Arch here so then, what you are
> saying is that it should download the old packages and then I just upgrade
> the system with pacman after it has installed?
>
> Yes. Refer to http://www.archlinux.org/news/ and the forum if you run
> into any snags, but this should work fine.
>
> John
>
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Re: [arch-general] A question about installing Arch

[John K Pate]

On Sun, 2011-10-16 at 00:33 +0200, Christian wrote:
> Hi all,
> Thanks a lot for your replies.
> I have the network installation CD of Arch here so then, what you are saying 
> is that it should download the old packages and then I just upgrade the 
> system with pacman after it has installed?

Yes. Refer to http://www.archlinux.org/news/ and the forum if you run
into any snags, but this should work fine.

John


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Re: [arch-general] A question about installing Arch

[Christian]

Hi all,
Thanks a lot for your replies.
I have the network installation CD of Arch here so then, what you are saying is 
that it should download the old packages and then I just upgrade the system 
with pacman after it has installed?


On 2011-10-15 at 19:26 Leandro Costa wrote:

>Just run a pacman -Syu after the installation and you will get the current
>system. ;)
>
>2011/10/15 Christopher Richard 
>
>> You should be able to install 2010 and do a pacman -syu
>> On Oct 15, 2011 2:48 PM, "Christian"  wrote:
>>
>> > Hi all,
>> > I just have a question and I really need to install Arch.
>Unfortunatly, I
>> > only have the 2010-05 release CD here and I am not able to burn the new
>> one.
>> > Is it correct that it will not be able to download the system and
>install
>> > it?
>> > If not, are there any other ways for me to get this installed?
>> > Many thanks for any help,
>> > Christian
>> >
>> >
>>
>
>
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Re: [arch-general] A question about installing Arch

[Leandro Costa]

Just run a pacman -Syu after the installation and you will get the current
system. ;)

2011/10/15 Christopher Richard 

> You should be able to install 2010 and do a pacman -syu
> On Oct 15, 2011 2:48 PM, "Christian"  wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> > I just have a question and I really need to install Arch. Unfortunatly, I
> > only have the 2010-05 release CD here and I am not able to burn the new
> one.
> > Is it correct that it will not be able to download the system and install
> > it?
> > If not, are there any other ways for me to get this installed?
> > Many thanks for any help,
> > Christian
> >
> >
>



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Re: [arch-general] A question about installing Arch

[Christopher Richard]

You should be able to install 2010 and do a pacman -syu
On Oct 15, 2011 2:48 PM, "Christian"  wrote:

> Hi all,
> I just have a question and I really need to install Arch. Unfortunatly, I
> only have the 2010-05 release CD here and I am not able to burn the new one.
> Is it correct that it will not be able to download the system and install
> it?
> If not, are there any other ways for me to get this installed?
> Many thanks for any help,
> Christian
>
>

Re: [arch-general] A question about installing Arch

[Martti Kühne]

On Sat, Oct 15, 2011 at 11:48 PM, Christian  wrote:
> Hi all,
> I just have a question and I really need to install Arch. Unfortunatly, I 
> only have the 2010-05 release CD here and I am not able to burn the new one. 
> Is it correct that it will not be able to download the system and install it?
> If not, are there any other ways for me to get this installed?
> Many thanks for any help,
> Christian
>
>

Uh, I might have shot out of specifically answering your question. You
can upgrade a live arch boot easily if you can get network running and
just pacman -Syu into memory. I guess the installer won't be upgraded
though, but maybe you can still use it anyway?

sorry for the noise. cheers!
mar77i

Re: [arch-general] A question about installing Arch

[Martti Kühne]

On Sat, Oct 15, 2011 at 11:48 PM, Christian  wrote:
> Hi all,
> I just have a question and I really need to install Arch. Unfortunatly, I 
> only have the 2010-05 release CD here and I am not able to burn the new one. 
> Is it correct that it will not be able to download the system and install it?
> If not, are there any other ways for me to get this installed?
> Many thanks for any help,
> Christian
>
>

Hey, I recently installed arch using a PCLinuxOS live cd from about
the same time. Basically you have to get pacman working and stick to
instructions on installing packages in the right places, eg. you can
easily set up an arch chroot on any existing linux. see [1] and [2],
my blog howto which circumvents the regular installer [3]. pacman
--root is your friend. :-)

cheers!
mar77i

[1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Install_bundled_32-bit_system_in_Arch64
[2] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Install_from_Existing_Linux
[3] http://mar77i.blogspot.com/2011/08/kde-on-virtual-archlinux-machine.html