Arch install issues...

[.walls]

Did you prune stuff?

Well kind of... I generally don't "select all by default" and I haven't updated my install cd for a couple of years (I think it's noodle x86) and this cd is a bit more bloated than current as it includes X and dev tools amongst other things. The most recent installs I've done are ftp as I can't be bothered fixing pacman (version 2.x --> 3.x); which usually involves using wget to download the necessary packages and then updating them manually.

I think the current install cd iso is about 100 MB or so...

 

[eXor]

I'm currently installing Arch and making scripts to automate most of the process, for next time. It's loads of fun... not.

It's a shame that they don't have signed packages. So I attempted a poor man's version. Before I unleash pacman, I download the db from the official ftp then download from my preferred mirrors and see if they match. Mirroservice.org seems a bit behind today.

#!/bin/bash

#append rule allowing outbound connections to this site, download database, remove rule.
iptables -A OUTPUT -d ftp.archlinux.org -j ACCEPT
wget ftp://ftp.archlinux.org/current/os/i686/current.db.tar.gz
iptables -D OUTPUT -d ftp.archlinux.org -j ACCEPT
md5sum current.db.tar.gz > db.md5
mv current.db.tar.gz current0.db.tar.gz

iptables -A OUTPUT -d mirrorservice.org -j ACCEPT
wget http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/ftp.archlinux.org/current/os/i686/current.db.tar.gz
iptables -D OUTPUT -d mirrorservice.org -j ACCEPT
echo "******************************"
echo "*     mirrorservice.org      *"
echo
md5sum -c db.md5
echo
echo "*     mirrorservice.org      *"
echo "******************************"
mv current.db.tar.gz current0.db.tar.gz

iptables -A OUTPUT -d ftp-linux.cc.gatech.edu -j ACCEPT
wget ftp://ftp-linux.cc.gatech.edu/pub/linux/distributions/archlinux/current/os/i686/current.db.tar.gz
iptables -D OUTPUT -d ftp-linux.cc.gatech.edu -j ACCEPT
echo "******************************"
echo "*  ftp-linux.cc.gatech.edu   *"
echo
md5sum -c db.md5
echo
echo "*  ftp-linux.cc.gatech.edu   *"
echo "******************************"

rm current*.db.tar.gz.* db.md5