How To Install Arch Linux With NO INTERNET

Most Arch Linux installers including the primary iso require an internet connection to complete the installation process but what if you don't have one well you're in luck because Arch Boot exists.

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[leej]

You know, this is actually pretty useful to have....

[ZgavY]

I.... Did install Arch without internet. Didn't think much of it until getting this into my recommendations

[id]

Every single Linux install video:
"Switching from Windows to Linux is easy!!! I don't understand why people don't just install Linux!"
Linux installation: "ACTUALLY...."

[samzick]

"That's gonna be it for me


I'm out."

It's unsettling when Brodie doesn't end the video with that line

[jongeduard]

5:45 Nope. I don't think so! Btrfs should definitely be the default! I use Btrfs for ALL my Arch installs. It's great and it's absolutely the future. The benefits are so many that they don't even fit here.
6:24 Very important difference. But I use UUID basically all the time. Because this makes it posible to clone your systems to other computers easier (which I like to do a lot, using dd etc.), without the need to preserve your partition table.
PARTUUID is the identifier of partitions defined in your GUID Partition Table (GPT) at the beginning of your (virtual) disk.
UUID is the identifier of a filesystem WITHIN a partition space. These are also different per file system type. For example FAT filesystems (like your ESP) use very different UUIDs from EXT and Btrfs. Note that you also need to use the right program for each file system type if you want to change them, like you need different programs to create each filesystem as wel. You use the "e2fs" tools for EXT, and you use Btrfs programs for Btrfs to do these things.

[voiceoftreason]

why did the arch wiki page for archboot get removed? It says in the talk page history the project is dead, but it has recent commits on the gitlab. It seems too bad really as the documentation and state of this project seems much better maintained than the archiso-profiles project which is the currently recommended project on the arch wiki with same purpose, but which I frankly could not get working to build a gnome based arch iso. (The desktop profile complains about a missing crypttab file, even after trying to disable encryption in the profiledefs)

[TheIntNinja]

archboot-images directory has been removed

[afivey]

This seems really useful for installing Arch without internet access at time and place of the install on computers that'd later have good-enough internet access at regular intervals. Maybe college students at start of year when broadband isn't always set up for example.

But I'm unconvinced the rolling release nature of Arch would be a good fit for computers with irregular, low bandwidth or flakey internet connections compared to something like a Debian stable, for say use on an ocean-going ship where internet can be a temperamental low bandwidth satellite shitshow.

When something is buggy with an update in Arch it's likely fixed quickly because of the combination of the large userbase noticing it and the rapid cycle of updates, but to me a lack of reliable bandwidth would be a use case where a rolling release's strength becomes a disadvantage.


These would maybe be a worthwhile factors for DistroChooser and such sites to recognise.