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Created February 2, 2016 12:41 — forked from m-ou-se/replace-debian-with-arch.txt
Instructions to replace a live Debian installation with Arch
# Download latest archlinux bootstrap package, see https://www.archlinux.org/download/
wget http://ftp.nluug.nl/os/Linux/distr/archlinux/iso/2016.01.01/archlinux-bootstrap-2016.01.01-x86_64.tar.gz
# Make sure you'll have enough entropy for pacman-key later.
apt-get install haveged
# Install the arch bootstrap image in a tmpfs.
mount -t tmpfs none /mnt
cd /mnt
tar xvf ~/archlinux-bootstrap-2016.01.01-x86_64.tar.gz --strip-components=1