Skip to main content ↑ ↓
Topic solved
This topic has been marked as solved and requires no further attention.
Topic: [noob] Scared of chrooting without wifi packages [SOLVED] (Read 380 times) previous topic - next topic
0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

[noob] Scared of chrooting without wifi packages [SOLVED]

Hi! I had this really bad experience once where I installed arch and then, coincidentally, the live iso died. Unfortunately I was stuck with pretty much nothing since I didn't bring along any network configuration stuff. It was a fun experience in retrospective but nowadays I'm scared of finalizing an arch install... I've gone through most of the steps right before chrooting into the system (except the system clock part where it just threw an error on runit), and I wanted to ask for your help to know what to do to safely go into the installation without fear of locking myself into an offline situation. Unfortunately ethernet is not an option at this moment. Thanks!

Re: [noob] Scared of chrooting without wifi packages

Reply #1 –
If I find I forgot to install some important things when I try to boot a new install then I just boot the ISO and mount the relevant partitions like before and basestrap the missing packages in from there as before, that step of the installation can be repeated as needed. You can also transfer packages via USB and install with pacman -U if the new install can provide a working terminal to do this. Another thing that might help during setup of a new install, say you need to connect by wifi and you have two computers, both with ethernet ports, you can use wifi sharing, where you get a wifi connection on one machine and connect it to another by ethernet and allow it to use the wifi of the first.
 

Re: [noob] Scared of chrooting without wifi packages

Reply #2 –
Quote from: ####### – on
If I find I forgot to install some important things when I try to boot a new install then I just boot the ISO and mount the relevant partitions like before and basestrap the missing packages in from there as before, that step of the installation can be repeated as needed. You can also transfer packages via USB and install with pacman -U if the new install can provide a working terminal to do this. Another thing that might help during setup of a new install, say you need to connect by wifi and you have two computers, both with ethernet ports, you can use wifi sharing, where you get a wifi connection on one machine and connect it to another by ethernet and allow it to use the wifi of the first.

Thank you very much