Azure works

Created by: ljani

I used Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and everything went fine.

Many thanks, this was an awesome script!

Two suggestions:

  • Add root check. Otherwise we will fail with a not so clear error message:
jani@sauna:~$ ./vps2arch
./vps2arch: 43: ./vps2arch: cannot create sha1sums.txt: Permission denied
--2016-02-04 18:42:56--  http://mirror.rackspace.com/archlinux/iso/latest/sha1sums.txt
Resolving mirror.rackspace.com (mirror.rackspace.com)... 94.236.26.35
Connecting to mirror.rackspace.com (mirror.rackspace.com)|94.236.26.35|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 244 [text/plain]
Saving to: ‘STDOUT’

 0% [                                                                                                                                           ] 0           --.-K/s   in 0s


Cannot write to ‘-’ (Broken pipe).
jani@sauna:~$

As you can see, I forgot to use sudo and thus noticed the following problem: