Arch Linux Installation and Live-CDs ---------------------------- All images give you a live console environment in which you can do a manual or automatic installation and which can be used as maintenance and rescue systems. All iso files can also be written to hard disks/usbkeys. Flavors: -------- * Netinstall images are the preferred install media for Arch Linux. You can get up to date packages using these media by connecting to a mirror. * Core images contain a snapshot of the core repository, which makes them ideal for offline installations when no Internet access is available to install the base system. (you can do a netinstall with these also) Both come in i686, x86_64 or dual variant. The latter contains both and lets you choose an architecture at boot. How to obtain and use these installation images: ------------------------------------- Torrents are preferred (they are webseed enabled), but you can also just get the images from an Arch mirror. When downloading from a mirror, please verify the md5sum or sha1sum of the downloaded files before proceeding. You can find the checksum files along the iso files. The Official Arch Linux Install Guide tells you al about the installation process: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Official_Arch_Linux_Install_Guide More info / getting in touch: ---------------------------- https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/DeveloperWiki: http://bugs.archlinux.org/ http://mailman.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch-releng Happy installing! Happy ARCHing! - Arch Linux Release Engineering team