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Re:Show HN: Twitch Installs Arch Linux – A cooperative text-... by coldpie on Friday October 30, 2015 @01:21PM (#10479122)
Nah. Format the disk, bootstrap your root partition, edit some config files, install your packages, done. If you know what you're doing and have a fast internet connection, you're talking about 10 minutes to a working OS. Unlike Gentoo, which has a days-long compilation step.
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Re:Show HN: Twitch Installs Arch Linux – A cooperative text-... by krick on Friday October 30, 2015 @03:30PM (#10480000)
You missed setting up a bootloader, which often is the most tricky part, sometimes due to some funny update in the freshest version of the ArchLinux which wasn't fixed yet. Bleeding edge and all.
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Re:Show HN: Twitch Installs Arch Linux – A cooperative text-... by semi-extrinsic on Friday October 30, 2015 @03:57PM (#10480165)
No, bootloader is easy:

# pacman -S syslinux

# syslinux-install_update -i -a -m

# vim /boot/syslinux/syslinux.cfg # ensure path to kernel etc. is correct.

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