[TylerLives]

He was installing Arch.

[doubled112]

Arch is easy to install. I just wrote 200 or so lines of shell scripts to bootstrap it and hand the rest of the setup over to Ansible in a chroot.

/s in case

[motaforever2019]

You joke but this is what I have on 3-4 machines that I maintain (a laptop and desktop each for work and personal). And it has saved my butt at least four to five in last 6 years when my drives failed.

While 4 to 5 times doesn't seem a lot, I was able to get back to full speed within two hours of my drives failing resulting in almost zero downtime.

[doubled112]

I wasn’t knocking the setup, it is how I configure my machines as well.

I treat my machines as if they were disposable. Ready to be wiped and reloaded or forgotten on the bus at any moment.

Just the part where I refer to it as easy was supposed to be sarcastic, I suppose. I don’t expect everybody to want to put that effort out.

[haunter]

Can be done less than 1 minute! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5X9TWW8lXd0

[M95D]

How can you say that?! Install Gentoo and then speak. :)

[hinkley]

I installed Slackware from floppies in a dorm room without Ethernet. Every time a disk turned out bad you had to restart. Down to the lab, make a new copy, back to my dorm, restart. I hated my life multiple hours before I got a clean boot. Jesus fucking Christ.

I think it was Debian that introduced an option to scan all the floppies before starting. I never went back.

[technothrasher]

Back in my day, I would have killed for a floppy after my 1/4" tape went bad an hour into installing SunOS 4.0.3 on a 3/60 workstation! (Also, see Monty Python "We were poor" sketch)

[patrick41638265]

Luxury!