Is that doable? How to begin to build such a ISO
Note: I stay at a place with weak internet. My best option is to get ISO downloaded at the metropolitan city, come back Home & Install.
Thanks in advance,
this is a rolling distribution , you have to often update and this required a correct internet.
not an issue.
I’ve seen people using Arch/Manjaro/Arco/ happily running for year’s without significantly updating all parts of their system.
But, how do we get to build an ISO which will contain Softwares & their Dependencies…
At the very least these bundled inside Cachy OS.
Well actually it IS an issue because it isn’t officially supported in any capacity, however here is a link to how Arch recommends you could accomplish this:
The “people you have seen” that are running for years without updating their system probably started with a regular installation and then just never updated it. If you are connected to the internet this is a very bad idea to not keep a rolling distribution updated but if you don’t do anything that involves any data you care about and you don’t use the computer to do anything personal like banking/shopping/email/etc then sure a snapshot at a point in time won’t hurt to play some offline games.
Since the distributions are now split to Desktop and Handheld, the Handheld ones could be managed as offline distros. The May version was working on my Anbernic Win600 in May/June, but after the recent update lots of games are broken (including almost all the UE ones - amdgpu issue or something, who knows) - and the only option now is to switch back to other distros.
It would be really useful. Sometimes you need to install the system without internet access. It would also allow to install system without problems in Russia. At the moment the system is sure that there is no internet access, although I can even go to the Cachyos site.
There are enough rolling systems based on Arch Linux that support offline installation, for example: Manjaro , EndeverOS etc… So it’s not impossible.
Is it possible to publish scripts for offline installer build as it was before? If developers don’t want to build offline installer, others could compile ISOs themselves. I try GitHub - s3tupw1zard/CachyOS-Offline-Live-ISO: Just an archiso project for installing CachyOS deckify offline and CachyOS / CachyOS Archiso · GitLab but they also build online installers only. It is probably because this feature has been removed from the installer in principle and you need an older version of installer package ?
I remember I read somewhere that the developers decided not to make an offline installation ISO just to keep focused.
I have to say, developers are doing a great job giving us this amazing CachyOS.
But my humble point of view, I think an offline ISO should be the default for cases like the OP.
Someone can simply give a friend the ISO on a flash disk to install from without the need to install from the internet.
So the user ends up with an offline installation and then update upon reboot. Unless the developers are worried installing a month ago ISO and then updating after a month may cause issues for not being frequently updated.
But I tend to like the idea of an offline install. I think it can help spread CachyOS more and more.
I don’t know if the issue of an old ISO can be overcome by just making an updated ISO say every 2 weeks to avoid issues of a month old installation.
I don’t want to add burden on the developers, they are doing a great job and a great distro.
So developers can focus only on this offline ISO, not offline and online.
I am just thinking out loud.
Once again: the decision of not making the offline installers AND not making the rollback features makes Cachy very unreliable, as any regression may instantly break the whole system (especially noticeable for handhelds where you don’t have any sensitive data and, therefore, system backups).
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I completely agree with this idea of having offline installation for cachyos, because there’s a place where a stable internet connection still consider as a luxury thing to have, including place where I live in right now
I don’t know the difficulty of maintaining a Linux distro, maybe it cause lots of issues that annoying to handle, but Endeavour OS has both online and offline installer where the offline installer has less options during installation. I know it’s a bit irrelevant to mention other distro to this topic, but I think cachyos should be more accessible to a lot of people by having offline installation as an option
I tried installing cachyos on bare machine twice, and never get it to successfully installed
To add a note, Omarchy has come out with offline installation for a Ready-to-Consume version.
Might be, some day, we will have Cachy OS too coming with fully offline Installation
Roll your own?
I’ve tried endeavoros rolling after half a year, there is no problem.
I also think cachyos it’s already very good，But installing Linux systems offline is still a requirement for most people.
I’m just suggesting,Thanks very much for developing such an excellent cachyos.
Not sure if it’s “most”, but I do believe (for some) that it’s necessary. The problem is, which DE/WM do you build for your offline install? EndeavourOS has only chosen KDE, so it’s manageable. But they also don’t have the installation choices that Cachy has. I fear that as soon as one was added, there would be clamoring for others.
I sure hope devs reconsider this at some point. In my case I just hate having to wait for things to download while the OS installs, I really like fast installations, I can update things later. Sure having many DE options right during installation is cool, but they could still offer that while including at least one fully packed in the ISO, so you don’t have to download it. There are so many cases where you might need to go about it without the internet.
I don’t know, maybe it just me but in general I hate when things require internet even though they don’t really need it.
I have found that if you copy the calmares-online.sh script that is called by hello, then strip out any line calling paru I can get most of the way through the install before it has a sad. It appears to be installing the live environment which is fine. I’m going to look at how reborn supports offline install as that’s calamares based too. I’ll see how it goes.
