[ale] Dave's ARCH Installer

[Jim Kinney]

Nice work!!!  Installers greatly expand a userbase. Ubuntu's first major work was a better installer than what Debian had. It was a risk that paid off. Kicked RedHat to clean up their mess, too.

Everything is always in development. Stable just means it's been forgotten or about to be replaced.

Like I told my students, "If you don't crash the cluster nodes occasionally, you're not pushing things hard enough."

On December 7, 2020 4:42:15 PM EST, David Jackson via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:
>Hey Everyone,
>
>So I'm an Arch Linux fan, and I've been working on a couple of scripts:
> 1)
>Darchi (Dave's ARCH Installer) and 2) Farchi (FastARCHInstaller)
>
>Arch doesn't have a graphical installer.  Normally, one installs the
>system
>by hand.  Or using a personal script.  I'm doing the latter...
>
>Right now I'm just trying to get "farchi.sh" working well, and if
>anyone is
>interested, I'd like to ask for some alpha testers in Virtualbox or
>whatever.   Darchi is intended to be more complex and handle more
>situations and flexibility.  Farchi is intended to be edited by hand
>for
>whatever machine you're installing to.  Then it is supposed to just
>work
>and give you a bootable system.  (You still need to watch it and pay
>attention though!)
>
>It's all still a massive WIP.  So some days things will work and other
>days
>they'll be broken as hell.  Here's the repo:
>
>https://github.com/deepbsd/darchi
>
>Now that I'm sharing this for the first time, it occurs to me I should
>really have a stable branch and a development branch!!!  Ooops!!
>
>Anyway, if anyone is willing to take a look and give me ideas, or even
>try
>things out, I would be very grateful!  Many thanks in advance!!

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