Installing without an Internet Connection

Is there a way to install Arch Linux without a working internet connection? I figure you could just download all of Arch to a USB, and then manually copy that over to the hard drive; but I'm a bit confused as how to do this.
Is this the correct way to do it, and where can I get such a copy of Arch to install. If it's not the way to do this, then how do you do it? Is it even possible?
Thanks in advance!
Last edited by Binero (2014-12-09 22:15:33)

If you seen the wiki, in the facts you'll get the Arch iso unsquashed and copied into your partition. Maybe later you will need to connect to INTERNET to complete from the minimal installation.
From USB you may obtain a complete set of packages upto the result you want. That's means you install everything of your liking on the USB, then later you'll be able to clone into the partition. Note that host computer may not reflect the same destination hardware, so you just use open source video drivers.
You just keep the pacman cache safe and use it to install into you partition. To avoid download you should use the very same package list. See here

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