New testing builds

Hi community,
due to time constraints, we have decided to make a slight alteration in the release process. That is:
- we (releng) build testing images and publish them on the buildserver.
- releng does only minimal testing. we rely on the community to try them out and report back to us.
bugs go to the bugtracker under the release engineering project.
it's often useful to submit your /var/log/aif/aif.log to a pastebin as it gives me much information.
success stories can go in this thread or on the mailing list.
bonuspoints for those who supply patches. (or online git repositories we can pull from)
- once there is enough feedback, and and there are no relevant known bugs anymore, then we can do a new official release.
If you did an installation and it went fine, please report:
- platform (32bit/64/kvm/xen/virtualbox/..)
- automatic or interactive installation
- netinstall or core, dual arch image or normal?
- (if relevant: network setup, dhcp/manual, time setup manual/ntp, ..)
- disk setup (autoprepare or manual. what kind: lvm, encryption,..)
download: http://build.archlinux.org/isos/
Changelog: http://build.archlinux.org/isos/Changelog
Known issues: http://bugs.archlinux.org/index.php?project=6&reported[]=66
Interesting links for hackers:
archiso http://projects.archlinux.org/archiso.git/ (archiso is used for the normal isos, archiso2dual for the dual arch)
AIF http://projects.archlinux.org/aif.git/ (installer)
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Archiso
have fun,
Dieter
Last edited by Dieter@be (2010-04-06 20:03:34)

Ultraman wrote:
I just tested the new PXE boot script from the wiki on the Core image for dual architectures, works great!
I'm getting a new laptop which doesn't have a optical drive builtin, and I don't have a external USB CD/DVD-player. I prepped an SD card with CloneZilla so I can immediately make a backup image after unwrapping it. And another SD Card with a Ubuntu 10.04 Daily built Live image, to quickly test it with Linux.
After that, I of course want to install Arch, I only have 2 decent SD Cards to spare and my USB key is in use. So to avoid having to backup and format that one, PXE boot is a much cooler option
When I try to install dnsmasq and nbd, pacman wants to update itself. But when trying to it runs into a problem when it cannot replace itself because of a read-only mounting. Saying no to the pacman upgrade enables me to install those 2 packages, but I don't know if this can cause a problem on a later date?
good to hear.
you could also run dnsmasq/nbd from a normal arch machine instead of a live environment. so you could update packages.
i don't think the problem you mentioned should happen because it's an aufs, so please report this issue and provide detailed information.
But anyway, the next images will have updated packages. (ie updated pacman)

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