On Fri, 12 Mar 2010 12:17:07 +0000 Damien Churchill <damoxc@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 12 March 2010 12:14, Dieter Plaetinck <dieter@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > you can also build your own iso's using archiso. > > it's pretty easy, although you need archiso from git and you must > > let it look in a repository that contains a 2.6.33 package (ie > > archlinux testing) > > > > Dieter > > > > Ok cool, thanks! > > I'm just going to try installing using the core cd and then copying > the kernel and firmware packages over via flash, if that fails too > then I'll resort to creating my own cd! you could also try a netinstall cd and enable the testing repository in /tmp/pacman.conf. IIRC aif (the installer) uses pacman with that config file, so it might just work, although i never tried it myself. if you are not afraid of looking at bash scripts, look at the source code of aif then you'll see how exactly it works. Dieter
