rancid gale
My schools network has a strict filter, so the keys and other packages are not available for me during install, or they get corrupted or something. Is there any official iso that has all essential packages? It’s fine if I have to work from a tty to install all the other packages, but otherwise is that available?
Posting pictures of the install if someone more knowledgeable than me can identify a workaround.
viral wagon
My schools network has a strict filter, so the keys and other packages are not a...
Damn your school is doing mitm
You could add the cert
viral wagon
My schools network has a strict filter, so the keys and other packages are not a...
EndeavourOS supports a offline install, on arch its not supported and the wiki guide seems outdated https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Offline_installation
You can edit the pacman config and add a custom download command which skips ssl, but somehow adding the school cert would be better
Does your school add the cert to every machine they deploy so everyone doesn't get errors like this always?
rancid gale
Damn your school is doing mitm
Mitm?
rancid gale
man in the middle
Don’t all schools do that? It’s even worse though that it’s a boarding school and they are blocking all networks except their own in the zip code
does this mean that when I go to uni they wont do this? so I will have an easier install in 3 months?
obsidian flint
I very much doubt a university will be this strict
A lot of schools have filters, but for most it's just blocking adult stuff and some other things they don't want students going on during school
At least where I live, it could be different for your area though
mystic sorrel
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My phone uses cellular
full kite
Do you have any kind of access to public internet from ur school's network?
full kite
My phone uses cellular
Any possibility of using cellular to do the install?
How did you get the ISO to do the install btw?
@rancid gale
full kite
You are contradicting urself....
Generally torrenting would require access to public internet
So i guess you have access to public internet but probably mitm works on certain ports or protocols
rancid gale
@razcrimson
Torrenting worked fine with the school internet though? Generally speaking, installing packages works fine but it’s just in the state of the actual install process where it doesn’t work
So I’m guessing it’s something about not performing the full handshake that is causing the problem
I’ll also be checking with my isp when I have the time
full kite
How old is the arch iso?
Are we using a resonable new version (few months old atmost) of arch iso for the install?
rancid gale
The may one
As in, 4 days old
Do y’all think I could use a raspberry pi as essentially the internet? Like, the actual downloading of packages would be done by the pi and then they would be transferred over an Ethernet cable?
Can you even transfer files computer to computer over Ethernet?
Should I maybe be installing an earlier version during the install process and then updating?
I tried looking all over the wiki / documentation and I couldn’t even find what would cause the error: unrecognized archive format, so I am not sure if it is even the internet that is the problem
It could be the hardware for all I know, with trash values overwritten on the file
full kite
If you dont mind using the cellular internet, it might be simple.
Does your school provide some kind of wifi?
Was just thinking if we could get some VPN running on the phone and tether that through USB to your machine
rancid gale
If you dont mind using the cellular internet, it might be simple.
you can connect to hotspots?
full kite
you can connect to hotspots?
Yes, if you device has a wireless radio.
Else we could look at using USB tethering which would probably be just a plug and play kinda thing if everything works
rancid gale
I’ll try to install on my pi using my hotspot soon! (Using my pi because if it doesn’t work I don’t want to have to reinstall my os again)
full kite
I’ll try to install on my pi using my hotspot soon! (Using my pi because if it d...
Uh, I recommend USB tethering coz its easier to setup and use
https://support.google.com/android/answer/9059108?hl=en
U can try wifi hotspot if this you dont wanna try this
rancid gale
I use an iPhone 💀
rancid gale
Uh, I recommend USB tethering coz its easier to setup and use
https://support.go...
If I get arch working on my raspberry pi could I use that as the network?
full kite
If I get arch working on my raspberry pi could I use that as the network?
Hmm.... You would probably still face same issues. Rather I think even the pi would have the cert errors
rancid gale
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/255456736?sortBy=rank
It was that easy? 
I dunno it’s looking promising with the pi
rancid gale
The same one
full kite
How r u going to share pi's network to your host machine
rancid gale
No idea - Ethernet cable? Anyhow, I think the big problem with the arch install is the fact that I can’t prebuild the file system before actually installing , where with armarchlinux you do
At least, that’s my impression
I think I’m changing the categorization of this problem into that in my head
full kite
If file system is your only issue, you can just flash ventoy on the usb and drop in whatever additional files you like in the USB
rancid gale
But, that is dependent on this resolving well
full kite
What am I seeing?
rancid gale
We shall see if I get to 152/152 without any problems
full kite
Is dat pi with archlinuxarm?
full kite
We shall see if I get to 152/152 without any problems
If one works I assume the other packages will too
rancid gale
Yep, ran pacman -Syu
full kite
So this pi is wired up to school network?
And here we can download packages without any issues?
Weird
rancid gale
Yeah it resolved good
full kite
If that's the case then maybe we should just try some other mirrors in your install
And your school probably has no mitm setup or anything
Maybe just some dns or http level blockers/filters
rancid gale
No im now running into internet problems
rancid gale
Wait I forgot that it doesn’t have a wifi chip smh
rancid gale
The pi
rancid gale
Ethernet
full kite
Okay, let's ditch pi for now
Can we just try an install with some other mirrors?
You can find mirrors to try here
full kite
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Any success?
rancid gale
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Any success?
Got sucked into configuring and finding out that arm uses different tiling managers than x86_64
full kite
Lol
rancid gale
I’m thinking I’ll just use the pi rn and then when I have energy, maybe in a few days, I’ll do the arch install
Tysm
full kite
Sure cool
rancid gale
[On Hold] Network-Less Install
rancid gale
Sure cool
Hahaha yeah I forgot that I can’t pay bills this month soooo no cell service for me xd. The student lifestyle goes hard
[On Persistent Hold] Network-Less Install
rancid gale
I was able to talk to the school isp and identified that the problem came from the school’s firewall blocking the mirror link… so yeah it’s solved!