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Image updates for Arch Linux

Posted on November 5, 2012

Since Arch Linux is moving from initscripts to systemd ( https://www.archlinux.org/news/end-of-initscripts-support/ ) it would be great to update your Arch Linux droplet image. ;)



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Couldn’t get new arch linux droplet working.

Please also update the image to a newer kernel and netctl instead of netcfg per default. If possible i would really like to help out on this! <br>cheers

To upgrade your arch image: Here is a small guide, where i have written down all steps i have done for my image. Especially the steps in ‘update-steps.sh’ are important: https://gist.github.com/thomasfr/8665985#file-update-steps-sh <br> <br>Maybe this helps <br>cheers

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