From 402c82ba540388593371271733bd3565a702d6ff Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Dieter Plaetinck Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2009 19:16:03 +0200 Subject: delete not so useful anymore howto --- HOWTO | 55 ------------------------------------------------------- 1 file changed, 55 deletions(-) delete mode 100644 HOWTO diff --git a/HOWTO b/HOWTO deleted file mode 100644 index d296ae4..0000000 --- a/HOWTO +++ /dev/null @@ -1,55 +0,0 @@ -### This howto explains how to install/upgrade aif on an arch system / arch installation cd ### - -* an installation cd is in essence just an arch system, it just has the aif package installed. you can install aif on any system without problems. -* install cd's from 2009.02 and up have aif on board, so probably you don't need to do anything at all. - -There are 3 aif packages available: -> supported: - * aif (extra repo): "binary" package, containing latest stable release. this is used by default on the official arch media -> unsupported: there are 2 source packages in AUR, one for each branch in git. ( see http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?K=aif ) - * aif-git: latest code from the git master (stable) branch: recommended for power users. - * aif-experimental-git: latest development code. Code is tested here and if ok, merged into master. Use at own risk!! - - - -So, if you want to upgrade the aif package on an installation cd.. - -> aif package from extra: - ---------------------- - * pacman -Sy aif - - - -> aif git package from AUR: (for example aif-experimental-git. aif-git is the same procedure) - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ - -1) Boot from the installcd - -2) Open 2 shells, one as user root, one as regular user (arch) - -3) Execute the code below. - -# root shell: -aif -p partial-configure-network # if you have a recent enough aif version installed that comes with this procedure. -/arch/setup. # alternatively, use the old installer. fake ftp install so it lets you run the network configure script, then exit the installer - -pacman -Sy git fakeroot # You need about 192MB ram for this! 128MB is not enough. - -# arch shell -wget http://aur.archlinux.org/packages/aif-experimental-git/aif-experimental-git.tar.gz -tar -xzf aif-experimental-git.tar.gz -cd aif-experimental-git -makepkg - -# root shell: -pacman -R aif # pacman can't replace with -U yet.. -pacman -U /home/arch/aif-experimental-git/aif*.pkg.tar.gz - -4) Fire it up! (as root) - -aif -p #you can skip networking. - - -Notes: -* For more info see README or aif -h. -* Since you configured the network before starting aif, you need to reconfigure it in aif if you want the 'auto-update rc.conf' functionality. -- cgit v1.2.3-54-g00ecf