2007.11-0.4 Isos released, installation feedback

Question

Hi
i just placed the new "Core Dump" TEST ISO
to the mirrors eg:
ftp://ftp.archlinux.org/other/rc-iso/2007.11/
1 week testing should be enough,
I tested them in kvm-qemu and didn't find an issue.
Changelog:
GENERAL:
- kernel 2.6.23.1 usage
- RAM usage has been revisited, these are the new recommendations:
     * FTP ISO, CORE ISO: arch boot image
       160 MB RAM x86_64/i686 (all packages selected)
     * CORE ISO: lowmem boot image
       96  MB RAM x86_64 (all packages selected)
       85  MB RAM i686   (all packages selected)
       64  MB RAM i686   (only base packages selected)
FIXES:
- fixed intel wireless automatic module loading (arch boot image)
- fixed auto prepare of harddisk (lowmem boot image)
As usual check md5sum before using the images and also be aware of the new
RAM recommendations the images have.
Have fun
greetings
tpowa

Answer 1

The installation went fine.
just three little things:
1) I got this message a couple of times:
"INIT: Id "c0" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes"
Somewhere on the forum I read that you would try to fix that message, although it's not a real issue, it doesn't look nice either.
2) I remember this from the other iso's too:
When I deselect iwlwifi-drivers and install ipw3945-drivers instead, still iwlwifi gets added to the MODULES-line in rc.conf instead of ipw3945; so I have to replace iwlwifi with ipw3945 in the MODULES-line and add the deamon ipw3945d to the DEAMONS-line.
It's not too much of a bother but it would be better if fixed I suppose, there are quite a lot of people that still need those drivers.
3) It seems that, in time, a little configuration of the 'Install Packages' part of the installation went wrong.
From the 'Official Arch Installation Guide' when it comes to the point of 'Package Selection':
(...)you have the opportunity to specify whole package groups from which you'd generally like to install packages, then fine-tune your coarse selection by (de)selecting individual packages from the groups you have chosen. (...)
The "Select all packages by default?" question can be easily misunderstood; Basically you are asked whether you want all the packages in the categories you just chose to be selected or not. If you select YES, the whole list of packages contained in the chosen categories will be displayed and selected, and your job will be to deselect what you do not want. If you select NO, the same list of packages will displayed, but only packages of the BASE category will be selected, and you'll have to explicitly select any other packages you want to install.
With my installations till now, cause I need the ipw3945 driver for example, I always need to check base, lib and support categories. At the question "Select all packages by default?" I always choose NO, but after that I will have to select all base packages myself, so the pre-selection of all base packages is gone somehow. I don't know for how long this is going on cause I am still very newbie.
That's all I think I hope you did well on you exams; I'm getting behind at university with all this arch-stuff to play with
Last edited by ibendiben (2007-11-22 19:43:21)