2007.08 Don't Panic Isos released, installation feedback

Hi Arch community,
5th August, 23:00 CEST (Central European Summer Time)
Arch Linux Don't-Panic 2007.08 ISO release
Get Archlinux ISOs in /iso/2007.08/{i686,x86_64}
on your favorite mirror.
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Mirrors
or
http://www.archlinux.org/download/
Please don't forget to check md5sums.
It's mostly a 2.6.22.x Iso with some fixes to last Linuxtag Isos.
Changelog to last Duke-Linuxtag2007 installation ISO:
- kernel 2.6.22.1 usage
- fixed: update mkinitcpio for new .22 firewire layout
- fixed: update hwdetect for new rtc_sys and firewire stuff
- Memory requirements bumped to 128MB!
- Serial console support in install environment
- USB Keyboard issues fixed
Setup changes:
- fixed: "" around CONSOLEFONT and CONSOLEMAP
- fixed: dhcp rc.conf entry
- fixed: not generated glibc locales
for fixed bugs reference:
http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/7410
greetings
tpowa
Last edited by tpowa (2007-08-05 20:57:38)

Installation feedback:
I installed Arch in virtualbox on a Windows XP host and after it initially hung up on boot (enabling acpi and apic was necessary), everything worked fine.
I was very pleased to see the pacman mirror selection dialog, apart from a "missing" pacman -Sy (I wondered why I couldn't install xfce4...everything was set up perfectly and it took me a while until I realized, that the local package database only includes the current repository) there was no need for post-configuration for the base system. I haven't checked for rankmirrors this time, but
Setting up X and xfce4 was done quickly and I had no further problems.
I was using the FTP-install-image.
Edit: Stay away from Safari for windows, it will not send or copy text fields containing a '[' or ']', it just cuts away everything following this character.
Last edited by wuischke (2007-08-06 19:36:03)

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