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authoradvaithm <advaith.madhukar@gmail.com>2021-04-02 09:48:41 +0530
committeradvaithm <advaith.madhukar@gmail.com>2021-04-02 09:48:41 +0530
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@@ -6,7 +6,6 @@ The installer also doubles as a python library to install Arch Linux and manage
* archinstall [matrix.org](https://app.element.io/#/room/#archinstall:matrix.org) channel
* archinstall [#archinstall@freenode (IRC)](irc://#archinstall@FreeNode)
* archinstall [documentation](https://python-archinstall.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html)
- * archinstall ISO's: https://archlinux.life/
# Installation & Usage
@@ -14,7 +13,7 @@ The installer also doubles as a python library to install Arch Linux and manage
$ sudo pacman -S archinstall
Or simply `git clone` the repo as it has no external dependencies *(but there are optional ones)*.<br>
-Or run the pre-compiled binary attached in every release as `archinstall-v[ver].tar.gz`.
+Or use `pip install --upgrade archinstall` to use as a library.
## Running the [guided](examples/guided.py) installer
@@ -88,10 +87,5 @@ This will create a *5GB* `testimage.img` and create a loop device which we can u
`archinstall` is installed and executed in [guided mode](#docs-todo). Once the installation is complete,<br>
~~you can use qemu/kvm to boot the test media.~~ *(You'd actually need to do some EFI magic in order to point the EFI vars to the partition 0 in the test medium so this won't work entirely out of the box, but gives you a general idea of what we're going for here)*
-You can also run a pre-built ISO with pip and python
-
- # qemu-system-x86_64 -enable-kvm -cdrom /home/user/Downloads/archinstall-2020.07.08-x86_64.iso -machine q35,accel=kvm -device intel-iommu -cpu host -m 4096 -boot order=d -drive file=./testimage.img,format=raw -drive if=pflash,format=raw,readonly,file=/usr/share/ovmf/x64/OVMF_CODE.fd -drive if=pflash,format=raw,readonly,file=/usr/share/ovmf/x64/OVMF_VARS.fd
-
-and once inside, just do
-
- # python -m archlinux guided
+There's also a [Building and Testing](https://github.com/Torxed/archinstall/wiki/Building-and-Testing) guide.<br>
+It will go through everything from packaging, building and running *(with qemu)* the installer against a dev branch.