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    [–] Laser@feddit.org 23 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

    archinstall?

    Back in my day, we needed to do all of that by hand, and there wasn't even arch-chroot, no, we had to bind mount dev, proc and and sys manually as well!

    Though in fairness, before that, there was the AIF, which I also used, but that doesn't sound so manly.

    [–] t_378@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago (2 children)

    Am I just stupid? I thought the official method was still pacstrap then chroot!

    [–] Laser@feddit.org 3 points 2 days ago

    Almost, as I said, arch-chroot didn't exist back then, and while the official method is still manual, archinstall is part of the official ISO, while back then, no helper was provided, so you had to do it manually.

    [–] RickyRigatoni@retrolemmy.com 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

    The official way is to use endeavouros

    [–] Sludge@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 days ago (2 children)

    Consider the jimmies in this thread rustled

    Endeavor makes you horny? Very strange. OP's picture would disagree.

    I found people that shared their minimalist arch install scripts and just copied and pasted through a ssh shell

    ruled I ruled afternoon! Took a little longer to get everything going and when I was done, I used that install for like 10 years