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Welp time to die (lemmy.ml)

submitted 3 years ago by AgreeableLandscape@lemmy.ml to c/linuxhumor@lemmy.ml

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[–] bilb@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (1 children)

Reminds me of the XKCD "tar" comic.

Edit: tar -xvf archive.tar.gz . maybe?

[–] AgreeableLandscape@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (1 children)

Edit: tar -xvf archive.tar.gz . maybe?

But then you have to hope you can find a tar file, and that it's valid, you have enough space on the drive, etc.

Better to just go with tar --help.

[–] lionel@lemmy.coupou.fr 3 points 3 years ago

If by valid we mean with a 0 return code, then that's technically true

[–] toneverends@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 years ago

Trouble is, I did an install - once. Like 8 years ago. Never been a need to do an install since.

I think even through major hardware upgrades I just moved or rsync'd the filesystems and adjusted fstab as necessary.

Has the procedure changed? Not that I remember it anyway.

tar xzf base-install-thingy.tar.gz to / and edit mirrorlist? Then just the generic Linux things like edit fstab, add a user with sudo privs, grub install. Nah, I'd have to at least read --help docs of these various tools.

[–] ToxicBuilt@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago

archinstall script 😎

[–] OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 years ago

There's a script called archinstall or whatever that comes by default with the images now. Find that and you're gold.