Installation using Snapshots

After reading your device specific Pre-Installation Site(WikiIndex), or the general one you can go on here.

This page describes how to use snapshots to install Arch Linux Mobile to the SD card. This is probably the quickest and most versatile method of installing this distribution. You could not only install to the SD card, but also over network or on your mobile device from within another system. We will, however, only cover the installation to the SD card already partinioned and mounted to /media/sd_storage. You may read Partitioning and Create Filesystem.

After booting your mobile device you will want to run pacman -Syu from SSH to update your system.

The snapshots are available from here:  http://naeg.archmobile.org/snapshots/. It's always best to get the most recent one except when it is not working. Then you might try older releases. And be sure to take the right one with the right kernel, it's always "archmoble-base-$kernel-$year.$month.tar.bz2".

Note: These Snapshots don't have a root password set-up. Use autologin.

Our snapshots should all at least contain our base packages with which you will be able to boot your mobile device and use SSH to update and configure it after booting.

All you have to do is to download a snapshot, mount your SD card and then extract the snapshot to the mount directory, here /media/sd_storage.

# tar -C /media/sd_storage -xjpf archmobile-*.tar.bz2

Now go to your device-specific Post-Installation Site(WikiIndex), or to our general one here.