captain-sensible
Well-Known Member
abstract [ one hell of a challenge]
This is not a rant just my experience so far having a look at Vanilla Arch sub Sahara.
I have a tower i built over 4 years ago; that has no wifi network card; internet access only by wifi and i only have some outdated usb wifi adapters to use.
Power went off today and yesterday in the middle of an install, and for most of the days i can remember.
wget i find generally works pretty well for downloading linux distros from my laptop ; its great
for distros that you can do full install from the iso once downloaded- for other distros that need stable internet its a problem
IN parts of Africa internet access is limited and expensive.There are power outages and when there is power often its half current which seems to affect quality of wifi.Thats all i basically have access to
I got the latest Arch iso using my laptop, that wasn't so bad at around 750 MB its under 1 gig. dd 'd it to a usb and had a go at install.
I used iwctl to confirm adapter and that i could connect to internet ; i manually edited mirrors in /etc/pacman.d/mirror list
There are no Arch mirrors in Ghana the nearest mirrors being South Africa and Kenya.
Install started off well except with poor internet the required download of around 700 MB took over 3 hours then failed
So i then thought might as well maybe try automated with possible candidates being Archfi and Anarchy.
Anarchy was pretty good it easily allowed access to a shell to check Internet access and started install from terminal using command : anarchy Install failed due to download requirement during install
Archfi i tried with vanilla arch iso; ok but internet again letting me down.
I've ended up putting archbang and using live from a usb; also downloading Endeavor OS via laptop- since it has an "offline install" option
Estimated download time 19 hours !
This is not a rant just my experience so far having a look at Vanilla Arch sub Sahara.
I have a tower i built over 4 years ago; that has no wifi network card; internet access only by wifi and i only have some outdated usb wifi adapters to use.
Power went off today and yesterday in the middle of an install, and for most of the days i can remember.
wget i find generally works pretty well for downloading linux distros from my laptop ; its great
for distros that you can do full install from the iso once downloaded- for other distros that need stable internet its a problem
IN parts of Africa internet access is limited and expensive.There are power outages and when there is power often its half current which seems to affect quality of wifi.Thats all i basically have access to
I got the latest Arch iso using my laptop, that wasn't so bad at around 750 MB its under 1 gig. dd 'd it to a usb and had a go at install.
I used iwctl to confirm adapter and that i could connect to internet ; i manually edited mirrors in /etc/pacman.d/mirror list
There are no Arch mirrors in Ghana the nearest mirrors being South Africa and Kenya.
Install started off well except with poor internet the required download of around 700 MB took over 3 hours then failed
So i then thought might as well maybe try automated with possible candidates being Archfi and Anarchy.
Anarchy was pretty good it easily allowed access to a shell to check Internet access and started install from terminal using command : anarchy Install failed due to download requirement during install
Archfi i tried with vanilla arch iso; ok but internet again letting me down.
I've ended up putting archbang and using live from a usb; also downloading Endeavor OS via laptop- since it has an "offline install" option
Estimated download time 19 hours !