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| author | Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi <vmlinuz386@yahoo.com.ar> | 2010-06-29 00:26:25 -0300 |
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| committer | Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi <vmlinuz386@yahoo.com.ar> | 2010-06-29 00:26:25 -0300 |
| commit | 95ae7823bd912c4fb78091b35c826a8b86c29e24 (patch) | |
| tree | ae1d52849f727d406b1b86a49ed578be66143172 /configs/syslinux-iso | |
| parent | 3be4092fe3ce5044ab63110f190d2d59ec71d6c5 (diff) | |
| download | archiso32-95ae7823bd912c4fb78091b35c826a8b86c29e24.tar.xz | |
[syslinux-iso] Update instructions file
Copied from http://www.archlinux.org/iso/2010.05/README
Signed-off-by: Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi <vmlinuz386@yahoo.com.ar>
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| -rw-r--r-- | configs/syslinux-iso/instructions | 53 |
1 files changed, 21 insertions, 32 deletions
diff --git a/configs/syslinux-iso/instructions b/configs/syslinux-iso/instructions index 2ae7e9c..5998788 100644 --- a/configs/syslinux-iso/instructions +++ b/configs/syslinux-iso/instructions @@ -2,46 +2,35 @@ Installation and Live-CDs ---------------------------- -All CDs and USB images are installation mediums and Live CDs -which can be used as maintenance and rescue systems. +All images give you a live console environment in which you can do +a manual or automatic installation and which can be used as maintenance and rescue systems. -FTP-ISOs/Images: ----------------- -These are the preferred install mediums for Arch Linux. -You can always get up to date packages using these mediums. +All iso files can also be written to hard disks/usbkeys. - archlinux-2009.02-ftp-i686.iso i686/32bit CD-ISO - archlinux-2009.02-ftp-i686.img i686/32bit USB-Image - archlinux-2009.02-ftp-x86_64.iso x86_64/64bit CD-ISO - archlinux-2009.02-ftp-x86_64.img x86_64/64bit USB-Image +Flavors: +-------- +Netinstall images are the preferred install media for Arch Linux. +You can always get up to date packages using these media. +Core images contain a snapshot of the core repository, which makes them ideal +for offline installations when no Internet access is available +to install the base system. (you can do a netinstall with these also) -For those who have problems with GRUB not loading, we offer the following -ISOs with the isolinux bootloader: +Both come in i686, x86_64 or dual variant. The latter contains both and lets you choose +an architecture at boot. - archlinux-2009.02-isolinux-ftp-i686.iso i686/32bit CD-ISO - archlinux-2009.02-isolinux-ftp-x86_64.iso x86_64/64bit CD-ISO - -Core-ISOs/Images: ------------------ -These are for offline installations when no Internet access is available -to install the base system. - - archlinux-2009.02-core-i686.iso i686/32bit CD-ISO - archlinux-2009.02-core-i686.img i686/32bit USB-Image - archlinux-2009.02-core-x86_64.iso x86_64/64bit CD-ISO - archlinux-2009.02-core-x86_64.img x86_64/64bit USB-Image - -How to use these installation images: +How to obtain and use these installation images: ------------------------------------- -Please ensure the sha1sum for your downloaded file matches the checksum -in the the SHA1SUMS file in this directory. +Torrents are preferred (they are webseed enabled), but you can also just get the images +from an Arch mirror. -See section in the "Arch Linux Install Guide": +The Official Arch Linux Install Guide gives you more info: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Official_Arch_Linux_Install_Guide -For the USB-Images see: - http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Install_from_USB_stick + +More info / getting in touch: +---------------------------- +http://bugs.archlinux.org/ +http://mailman.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch-releng Happy installing! Happy ARCHing! - Arch Linux Release Engineering team - |