When will arch 0.6 be released.

Question

I need sata support to install linux. Thought about freebsd, but it looked there where to many probabilities I would kill my computer. Tried fedora, and it was crap. So I wanted to know when is 0.6 going to be release. Anybody knows or can speculate?

Answer 1

All,
I have succeeded in making a new installer ISO that boots and installs the 2.6.0 kernel, for both IDE and SCSI systems.
You may fetch it from:
  ftp://ftp.archlinux.org/incoming/arch-0 … se-pjm.iso
I started with the 0.5-base iso and here's what I did:
* Took Judd's kernel26-2.6.0-2 package and recompiled it without the 26 suffixes;
   from this I created a kernel-2.6.0-1 package
* Attempted to add all the analagous SCSI options into a kernel-scsi-2.6.0-1
* Created a base installer that uses current "base" as of this morning, only with my kernel
  packages swapped in
A few tweaks needed to be made to accomodate the 2.6 kernel and the newer packages:
* Had to modify the syntax in the arch/setup script to use "file:///" rather than "local:///"
  when it creates its default pacman.conf
* Had to install new versions of the module utils into the initrd.img; I took modprobe,
  insmod, and lsmod from the current module-init-tools-0.9.14-3 package
* Had to install a new version of mkreiserfs into the initrd.img; I took mkreiserfs
  from the current reiserfsprogs-3.6.11-1 package
I tried to keep everything else as normal as possible.
Since this isn't really a 0.5 release and it isn't 0.6 either, I called it 0.590 pre-Widget. I tried uploading once and it failed midway.. I couldn't resume, so rather than confuse everyone, I upped the version number to 0.591 for the full image.
The MD5sum for the 0.591 image should be:
496392b89e2fc2fb43fd6794105de45e
I hope this proves helpful to everyone! I'd be happy to discuss implementation detail/ choices with anyone/everyone; just email me at pjmattal at elys dot com, or drop me a message here. I was able to use it to install Arch on my new Shuttle SK43G system with an SATA drive (it's the VIA VT8237 southbridge SATA controller) and all appears to be working beautifully!
Of course, this installer is in no way sanctioned by anyone; use it at your own risk, and it may or may not represent the wishes of Judd or others; to the extent that it doesn't, I'd be happy to continue work on the image to put it in line with general thoughts about how Arch installers should be/behave.
Best,
Paul
P.S. At time of writing, the upload had not yet completed. Be sure you've got the full file before you begin your install! By 1pm EST, the full image should be present on the server. Please check your MD5sums.