Re: [arch-general] Booting archlinux .iso to take a look

2012-06-25 Thread Chris Jones
On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 04:07:34AM EDT, Jelle van der Waa wrote: [..] > > Bit of a shame Archlinux does not provide a live environment that lets > > you verify you can run X11.. connect to the network.. etc. > You can connect to the network with the live-cd, since the netinstall > uses the inter

Re: [arch-general] Booting archlinux .iso to take a look

2012-06-24 Thread Chris Jones
On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 06:15:42AM EDT, Jelle van der Waa wrote: > On 23/06/12 06:41, Chris Jones wrote: [..] > Please note that bridge-gnome is not supported by Archlinux and is not > recommended as installation media. Thanks. I looked inside the bridge-gnome iso.. but I don'

Re: [arch-general] Booting archlinux .iso to take a look

2012-06-22 Thread Chris Jones
On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 12:10:05AM EDT, Chris Jones wrote: [..] > Downloading.. thanks.. Duplicated the grub entry for the Arch iso: | menuentry "bridge-gnome-2012.5-x86_64.iso" { | set isofile="/iso/bridge-gnome-2012.5-x86_64.iso" | loopback loop (hd0,7)$is

Re: [arch-general] Booting archlinux .iso to take a look

2012-06-22 Thread Chris Jones
On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 12:09:41AM EDT, David Benfell wrote: > On 06/22/12 20:48, Chris Jones wrote > > > > > I never bork my existing system(s).. ;-) > > > > s/never/have not yet/ > hehe.. Actually, I once did end up with an unbootable system on a coup

Re: [arch-general] Booting archlinux .iso to take a look

2012-06-22 Thread Chris Jones
On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 07:16:17PM EDT, C Anthony Risinger wrote: [..] > Or yet-another-option -- my personal favorite thanks to unusual levels > of utility and awesome -- you can "dynamic netboot" Arch from a 1/2 > MiB PXE image: > > http://releng.archlinux.org/pxeboot/ > > ... as linked on th

Re: [arch-general] Booting archlinux .iso to take a look

2012-06-22 Thread Chris Jones
On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 06:55:22PM EDT, David Benfell wrote: > > You could try archboot[1]. tpowa has been doing a great job at > > providing unofficial up-to-date install/live images. They provide > > the same as the official install images (but up-to-date :p) so don't > > expect any fancy guis.

Re: [arch-general] Booting archlinux .iso to take a look

2012-06-22 Thread Chris Jones
On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 03:30:13PM EDT, Paul Gideon Dann wrote: [..] > Also, I'd highly suggest rolling out VirtualBox and playing with an > installation. This will 1) mean you won't bork your existing system, I never bork my existing system(s).. ;-) CJ -- Focus follow mouse users will bur

Re: [arch-general] Booting archlinux .iso to take a look

2012-06-22 Thread Chris Jones
On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 02:38:48PM EDT, Alexandre Ferrando wrote: > On 22 June 2012 20:34, Chris Jones wrote: > > I am a long-time debian user. [..] > You're not missing a thing, archlinux doesn't have that kind of > liveCDs, just the installer. At least officially. C

[arch-general] Booting archlinux .iso to take a look

2012-06-22 Thread Chris Jones
I am a long-time debian user. Is there an Archlinux live environment available anywhere so I can take a look round without installing AL to my hard drive..? I created a grub menu entry for ‘archlinux-2011.08.19-core-dual.iso’ and booted successfully.. but afaict.. it only lets me run the installe