This guide will show you how to install Arch Linux on an OVH VPS.
As you may have noticed, OVH does not have an Arch image, which is a problem. Follow these instructions to install Arch using recovery mode.
Assume anything reffered to as low ram vps in the guide to be a VPS with <8gb ram
This guide assumes the following:
| import tweepy | |
| # Authenticate to Twitter | |
| auth = tweepy.OAuthHandler(consumer_token, consumer_secret) | |
| auth.set_access_token(key, secret) | |
| api = tweepy.API(auth) | |
| try: | |
| api.verify_credentials() |
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This was a response to a Hacker News comment asking me what I've been up to since 2010. I'm posting it here since HN rejects it with "that comment is too long." I suppose that's fair, since this ended up being something of an autobiography.
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What happened after 2010?
| [02/22/2025] | |
| Refs: | |
| 1. https://mirrors.rit.edu/archlinux/iso/2025.02.01/archlinux-bootstrap-2025.02.01-x86_64.tar.zst | |
| 2. https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/v3.21/releases/x86_64/alpine-virt-3.21.3-x86_64.iso | |
| 3. https://wiki.alpinelinux.org/wiki/Replacing_non-Alpine_Linux_with_Alpine_remotely | |
| 4. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/installation_guide#Configure_the_system | |
| See also: | |
| 1. Convert to Debian https://gist.github.com/zengxinhui/ee0ad6b7c7f99e2ead6cd0d2bd6641fd |
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First, read this:
http://dashohoxha.fs.al/deduplicating-data-with-xfs-and-reflinks/
Then, some adds:
I recommand the use of fdupes to really save space used by all duplicated files. duperemove can miss some of them.
fdupes -r . | duperemove --fdupes