[arch64] arch64-0.7.2-(ftp/base/current).iso out

AndyRTR · 2006-03-27 11:20:30

Cam wrote:

Thus far I have a very-mini personal package repo up (link one day) that will build as I find time, if you want to email me a copy of autoport or whatever I'll use that and put the results back into SVN or whatever.

There's nothing mysterious about autoport. It's a simple script going through all packages from arch32 trying to rebuild them without modifications. That job is done.

If you want to help building packages, try what you want from that ToDo list and look into the Wiki. When you get a difficult package built notify me. Easy updates are not necessary. We should soon start to test using pacbuild for that. You can read about it on Xentac's blog.

Cam wrote:

I'm not sure if Andy updated nvidia in the arch64.org repo but the package in mine should have no problems at all.

I've taken your package. I've only changed the release number and prepared applying needed patch for next kernel. Thanks for the package. I'm still having a very poor 3d performance. But I don't care for now.

AndyRTR

Cam · 2006-03-27 21:49:47

Thanks for the package. I'm still having a very poor 3d performance. But I don't care for now.

I'm getting similar performance as I was in Arch32. Need some other people to try it and get a definite broken/nor broken status :?

rpgcyco · 2006-03-28 01:24:21

I quickly tried out a CD install last night. I got the same problem as jskier. I got a segmentation fault after finishing formatting as ext3.

I'll try a different FS today.

EDIT: Alright, got it installed using Reiser FS. GRUB didn't install properly though, in fact, I think the GRUB I was used to manually boot into Arch 64 was still residing in the MBR from Fedora Core. Anyway, once in Arch 64 I ran -

grub-install /dev/sda

and it worked fine.

Now, time to update, install X, then GNOME and I'll report back.

EDIT 2: Worked my way around the current.db.tar.gz you talked about in another thread and I now have X.org and GNOME working well, including the NVIDIA drivers, which seemed to install fine. Haven't done any 3D stuff yet.

I've built a few packages, but mainly from the AUR.

Built ttf-ms-fonts-1.3-7. Just had to change the mirror. Problem with Arch32 though, not Arch64.
Built Audacious, from the AUR. Works fine.
Built perl-xml-simple, icon-naming-utils and tango-icon-theme from the AUR. Had to muck around with the PKBUILD for perl-xml-simple, as it referred to a dir created on an i686 system. Just replaced it with x86_64 equivalent and everything worked.

- Rpg Cyco

linfan · 2006-03-29 22:37:19

I came home with may amd64 athlon 3700+ today and happily downloaded the rc2 install disk.

I could never get passed cfdisk

Might be coz i have sata, dunno.

cfdisk was also behaving very strangely with a lot of error msgs.

Now I am installing gentoo, but i just hate it. I want archlinux!

Any further help would be very appreciated.

Regards,

linfan

Cam · 2006-03-29 23:57:40

I doubt it'd be the SATA disks, I'm not sure what kernel the Arch install CD is running but SATA is pretty well supported across the board these days.

An option you have other than the ISO is to use a live CD (make the Gentoo download worth while ) and use the Arch64bs script off the wiki to install the base packages, then install the kernel because I don't think that script will and you'll need to install/modify a bootload by hand but that works too.

At any rate, instructions are on the wiki

syamajala · 2006-03-30 02:33:51

andytr: i've been trying to get my systems back up and running for the past couple of days because i am deffinately interested in doing stuff again. my plans are to run debian etch on them and run arch64 in xen because of the stuff that happened before with the openldap/samba updates. hopefully by the weekend i should be compiling packages again.

AndyRTR · 2006-03-30 04:42:30

FYI: The kernel I use is mostly a config mix from arch32 and arch64 stock kernel but with changes in the scsi section. There I had to switch a lot of modules from build into the kernel to modular build to get the kernel boot into the busybox. Frugal's config helped a lot

Do you think it would make sense to recompile some packages to test if that would solve the mkfs.ext3/grub/lilo/dhcp issues?

Anyone finished a network install successfully? Pathes are "xentac.net" for the server and "/amd64/current".

I've received the patch from maci to build a ftp-only cd. That one will be very small ;-)

I hope I can soon have a look at the planned 0.7.2 iso. Then I want to make a final set of full/base/ftp-only cds.

AndyRTR

Mr Green · 2006-03-30 09:03:32

Not yet got ftp install working yet ....

Would very much like to test net install version

Lilo issue I need to hack into setup see whats going on .....

You should be able to use iso to rescue broken bootloader (from in chroot!)

not at my box atm so cannot check

Talk Soon

MrG

linfan · 2006-03-30 14:56:12

Thanx for the tip

talking on #archlinux yesterday, I decided to go for 32 bits - maybe one day archlinux is ready for 64. I can wait.

Happy, though, that I aborted the Gentoo install. I tried with ubuntu, too, but just don't like the .deb's. I am in love with archlinux - LOL.

As I bought the pieces for the new computer, I ran into an unsupported audigy SE card with a module called ca0106. But I now put in an old sound blaster live with the emu10k1 chipset and sound works.

Regards,

linfan

iBertus · 2006-04-02 02:03:09

Hi andyrtr,

I've been trying the RC3 iso that's on the arch64.org ftp but it seems the pcre package is missing from the disc, causing grep installation to fail.

AndyRTR · 2006-04-02 05:03:55

OK. I've just added pcre package and will do RC4.

Tell me about all the other stuff if I have to change something else.

AndyRTR

AndyRTR · 2006-04-02 08:40:20

News: We have 2 new ISOs for testing:

RC3 ftp-only 18MB
RC3 ftp-only md5sum
and
RC4 base iso
RC4 base iso md5sum

I shouldn't call it 0.7.1 any longer as I have recompiled all packages what should fix some of the bugs. So give them a try and report bugs.

AndyRTR

iBertus · 2006-04-02 21:19:58

AndyRTR wrote:

OK. I've just added pcre package and will do RC4.
Tell me about all the other stuff if I have to change something else.
AndyRTR

I didn't notice anything else out-of-order but then again, I didn't get very far.

I'll give RC4 a shot later tonight.

Cam · 2006-04-02 22:46:57

Tried RC4 and it worked well. If you just select all packages in base then it errors out with hotplug conflicting with udev so I think that hotplug should be removed all together. It's not needed these days. I'm assuming grub installed ok but I'm not sure, I was using qemu which has pretty iffy x86_64 in v0.7.2. I'm about to build 0.8 so we'll see how it goes there.

AndyRTR · 2006-04-02 23:39:53

Are you sure you have taken the packages from RC4? There's no hotplug pkg on it and and it's not in /arch/pkg/setup/packages.txt listed. Have you done a netinstall?

AndyRTR

Cam · 2006-04-03 01:03:04

Ahh yeah sorry, was a FTP install. So it's xentacs server that hotplug should be dumped from.

AndyRTR · 2006-04-03 07:10:47

Hm. Not sure. Hotplug is still in arch32 current present. Maybe you should make a bug report for moving it to extra.

Mr Green · 2006-04-03 09:13:31

RC3 seems to work ok (other than hotplug in package list!)

Err dumb idea but why not put package list on iso ?

Will check out RC4 .... see if I lilo works now

syd · 2006-04-03 10:38:51

Hey really nice job.

Just installed RC4 not a prob.

The only thing is that im getting really slow download speeds on pacman.
It might just be my connection. It has been playing up a bit.

Are many people using arch64 full time?

Thanks.

Ben

kozaki · 2006-04-03 12:40:21

Great news !
RC4 base torrent created on mininova.org & linuxtracker
Hope I soon have some spare time to install/test Arch64

nicholai · 2006-04-03 14:16:26

I'm on a arch64 box full time. I think I installed with the RC2 about a week ago, had to deselect the hotplug package but that has already been solved.

I got a kernel Oops with 2.6.15-1 (Gigabyte GA-K8NS Ultra-939), so I booted with my gentoo kernel instead. np.

Besides that, everything seems to work fine.

1. Are there any plans to include the gentoo emul_x86_* packages sometime in the future? I gave it a try, but the project page on gentoo.org [url]http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/base/amd64/emul/index.xml [/url] seems to be down. I have an ArchLinux chroot instead (for stuff like j2me, ET and other 32bit stuff)

2. I've been away from Arch for quite a while. Can I upload stuff to the community repo? I've build a few packages for E17-cvs, muttng and (g)vim7-RC1 if anybody cares.

Cheers,

Oh, and it's nice to be back. Good work.

Nicholai

Mr Green · 2006-04-03 14:25:21

/me thinks we need a head count of Arch64 users ;-)

jskier · 2006-04-03 17:15:03

Well no dice. Grub and Lilo error still are a problem for me with RC4. Only workaround that works for me is to use an Ubuntu live cd and install grub.

iBertus · 2006-04-03 17:19:00

I'm not currently using Arch64 full-time, but I've got an extra partition that I test new Arch64 releases on.

AndyRTR · 2006-04-03 19:50:07

Except the bootloader issues everything else looks fixed now. So I invite you all to look at page 6 of this thread where I've posted the related installer part.

If you have any idea how to fix it, tell me. I don't know why calling "lilo" or "grub" in a running system works but not in our chroot environment. Is busybox not compatible?

Everybody can play around with our ftp-only iso RC3 which is the same as RC4 base iso. Follow the wiki rules given here : http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Rem … nstall_ISO

The installer is in the initrd in /arch/setup.

AndyRTR

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