Guess it’s time to either get a new pendrive, or enter the void.
These new pendrives wear out after 2 months of light usage, so I’m probably going to choose the second one, but I’m afraid that if I make this step, there’s no going back, and I’ll forever be sucked into the void.
What crappy drive are you using that died after a couple months?
Use netboot.xyz and let us know how it goes. I’ve always been curious.
Gentoo would fit just fine :P
It ain’t gonna fit babe
Can you use any sort of compression to fit it? Or just use netboot.xyz
+1 for netboot.xyz
Arch has an internet pxe option
Since arch is a rolling release distro, can’t you just download an older iso from when it was below 1gb, install it and then update the system?
Check this page: https://archlinux.org/releng/releases/
I lost my 4G drive, it’s in a better place now. It’s been serving me since 2003 even when it lost its case to fit in a USB port on the Xbox 360.
Maybe the new owner of the house I moved out of will find it and the outdated copy of Arch Linux on it.
Maybe build your own iso that doesn’t include the things you won’t use?
Yes, but I don’t know how to do that. I might do some research on it tho.
I think you could mount the iso and manually delete the packages you dont want. Mounting an iso is as easy as
# mount -o loop /path/to/iso /path/to/mountpointYou can also chroot into it while it is mounted: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Chroot
Disclaimer, I am not sure if deleting files inside the iso makes it weight less.
You’d likely need to reshrink the partition, then truncate the ISO to fit.
I might try this for the next install, thank you!
Just FYI, Arch Linux has a tool called Archiso that you can use to create live ISO image. You can copy the default releng config and edit the package list accordingly.
*cough* netboot
Pen drives are cheap as dirt nowadays, especially small ones that are like 16GB. I’d just buy a new one.
You’re forgetting all the fun about taking this challenge as a personal offense and not doing anything else beyond solving it.
Yes, they are cheap, but they wear out so fast that they aren’t even worth that little money you put into them.
They wear out if you write data on them, reading doesnt matter. if you just need them for install, you just write once and you can install the same arch on millions of computers
If your phone is rooted you could also build isodrive in Termux to mount any ISO from your phone’s storage
Well shit, and it even has a pre built magisk module
Aaaand installed lmao
How often has it been used does it still actually have a gigabyte of usable memory
