From 51cb64cc97a662380d69b93cf82fd863625aacea Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Anton Hvornum Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2021 09:52:29 +0200 Subject: Instructed to use truncate instead of dd, as dd is a bit slow. --- README.md | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index c430ac0e..7876fdc9 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -149,7 +149,7 @@ After this, running archinstall with `python -m archinstall` will run against wh To test this without a live ISO, the simplest approach is to use a local image and create a loop device.
This can be done by installing `pacman -S arch-install-scripts util-linux` locally and doing the following: - # dd if=/dev/zero of=./testimage.img bs=1G count=5 + # truncate -s 20G testimage.img # losetup -fP ./testimage.img # losetup -a | grep "testimage.img" | awk -F ":" '{print $1}' # pip install --upgrade archinstall -- cgit v1.2.3-70-g09d2