Arch Linux

Install from Existing Linux

Checkout this wiki and my old script.

#!/bin/sh
# Install from Existing Linux

xARCH=i686
# xARCH=x86_64
URL=http://mirrors.ustc.edu.cn/archlinux/iso/latest
TARBALL=$(wget -q $URL/md5sums.txt -O - | grep $xARCH | awk '{print $2}')

cd /tmp
wget $URL/$TARBALL
tar xf $TARBALL
cp /tmp/root.$xARCH/etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist{,.old}
cat >/tmp/root.$xARCH/etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist <<DELIM
Server = http://mirrors.ustc.edu.cn/archlinux/\$repo/os/\$arch
DELIM
/tmp/root.$xARCH/bin/arch-chroot /tmp/root.$xARCH/

ls -R / &
pacman-key --init
pkill -9 ls
pacman-key --populate archlinux

Virtualbox

1. New guest with 40G virtual disk.
2. Boot the guest into archlinux live iso.

curl -s -L --resolve 'gist.github.com:443:192.30.252.140' https://gist.github.com/kemadz/2517579/raw | sh -

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