Re: [orca-list] auto talking arch install

[Hadi Rezaee <hadirezaei gmx com>]

Hi Fernando
That is not a silly question at all my friend.
Arch is an amazing distro, and I cannot live without it personally.
I just recommended to people who have not installed arch by hand, to not 
go toward automated installation of the distro.
Not every system look like the same, and there is not a comprehensive 
installer that could install arch automatically for you.  (Manjaro and 
antergos are excluded, because they are different distros).
So, there is a high chance that the installation would go wrong.
Beside all of that, Arch although being a very stable distro, requires a 
bit of attention when it comes to configurations, upgrades and 
maintenance. You need to have a basic understanding of the installation 
process, so you could have basic idea about mountpoints, fstab, 
partitioning, pacstrapping and other small bits of configurations.
The third reason, is that one of the beauties of arch linux is its 
speed, and lightness, and the matter of choice. You exactly install 
things on it that you desire, and you have the exact track of what is on 
your system. with automated installers, that's not the case.

Cheers
Hadi

On 2/11/2015 6:19 PM, Fernando Botelho wrote:
> Hi, this might be a sillly question, but please tell us why you do not 
> recommend such installers please.  Have you had a bad experience with 
> this particular distro?
>
> Fernando
>
>
> On 02/11/2015 12:07 PM, Hadi Rezaee wrote:
> > I strongly advise against autoinstallers for arch, unless you've 
> > installed arch manually lots of time and now you're lazy to do it 
> > over and over on different systems.
> >
> > On 2/11/2015 5:22 PM, Josh K wrote:
> > > hey I found an automatic talking arch install. link is
> > >
> > > https://copy.com/XStZ6r7HLunN9jF0
> > >
> > > You have to hit enter on the file name linkk then enter on download 
> > > to the computer link that will appear then. perhaps someone who has 
> > > an extra hard drive or who knows what they are doing could modify 
> > > this so it doesn't install a bunch of desktops we don't need? This 
> > > sounds like maybe an easy distro for people who want arch but who 
> > > don't feel like messing about with lots of command line stuff.
> > >
> > > Josh
> >
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