[Feature request] Offline installation for Antergos

[harry-cpp]

Not sure if I'm asking for this in the correct section, but Antergos really needs an offline installer, as right now, its literally a coin flip if the installation will work when you need it to, or if something will fail :/

[karasu]

I've been always against this. I do not know what others think, but I would guess that they agree with me.

On the other hand, as a failsafe, maybe it would be a good idea to provide an offline installation (like, when online does not work, give the option to do an offline one).

@lots0logs @faidoc what do you think?

[harry-cpp]

You guys really need a fail safe, last 2 times I tried installing Atergos I run into issues and just ended up installing Ubuntu.

Today for example there was a problem with antergos-desktop-settings package which made the installer unusable (also some problem with Cnchi deleting a mirror for Antergos main repo when leaving it on auto select...).

On a related note, I never had trouble installing Arch Linux, even once, it just takes a bit more time to setup so I usually try to go with Antergos.

[Quarkschleuder]

Absolutely in favor of this.
From the perspective of an interested user and someone who actively encourages his colleagues and friends to finally use Antergos: It is of tremendous importance that an offered installer works. No sign of malfunction in the "status" section, no information on twitter - this will lead people just to install another distro and probably never try this one again. Much more important than any design topic.

[drujd]

@cra0zy #1110

[xenithorb]

Today there's a problem with antergos-midinight-timers and tff-bitstream-vera.

Wasted a couple hours so far trying to figure out what's going on as a new user coming from Fedora

.... Seriously, fix this so people can actually install your distribution

[drujd]

Just don't bother and install Arch directly. I was forced to do that due to an error in another Antergos package and it is NOT that hard.

Antergos installer often doesn't work and even if you report it, the fix takes days. This is not the "distro" (not really) you want to use.

[ghost]

drujd, then why are you here exactly? I've been using Antergos installer on my computers for a few years now and the only issues I've seen had to do with unreachable or out-of-sync mirrors, not cnchi.

Arch's installer, OTOH, often fails to detect my hardware. So, if you don't like a distro feel free to use something else but stop bashing other people's work.

[pcb060]

This really is a relevant issue. Last four times I tried to install Antergos (twice for me, twice for friends) the installer failed. Ended up using Archlabs instead, even if I really liked the experience that one time the installer didn't fail, months before.

Antergos is great, but installation issues are bringing it down imo.

EDIT: Just to be clear, I love Antergos and respect all the hard work people put in this project. I just wanted to show support for this request since the only thing that has stopped me from using this distro was the installer failing because of network-related issues.