Being with Arch for like seven years or so, it’s only recently I’ve learned one neat trick, upon reinstalling the system I have on various Windows tablets. I start sshd, do passwd and connect from my main machine. Then I just quickly format disks, and pacstrap system by copy-pasting commands from my blog, where I have the instructions for my devices. It’s not the very techy way, I guess, but I was able to reinstall my system within like 10 minutes, most of which was booting off the USB drive with Arch ISO, and then downloading the packages and waiting for them to be installed, and rebuilding Initramfs.
I start sshd
Yes
do passwd and connect from my main machine
Yes yes
Then I just quickly format disks, and pacstrap system
Yeeesssss
by copy-pasting commands from my blog
Bah. Why not put them in an Ansible playbook? Save yourself the extra blog traffic!
Meh… If /home is on a separated partition that’s no biggie. Reinstalling Linux, even Arch, takes half an hour at most.
I just run rsync to copy all important data to a secondary drive. I reinstall and copy the other way and I’m done
Being with Arch for like seven years or so, it’s only recently I’ve learned one neat trick, upon reinstalling the system I have on various Windows tablets. I start sshd, do passwd and connect from my main machine. Then I just quickly format disks, and pacstrap system by copy-pasting commands from my blog, where I have the instructions for my devices. It’s not the very techy way, I guess, but I was able to reinstall my system within like 10 minutes, most of which was booting off the USB drive with Arch ISO, and then downloading the packages and waiting for them to be installed, and rebuilding Initramfs.