0.8 alpha/beta and final Voodoo installation feedback

RabidWolf · 2007-01-22 09:17:47

Excellent job guys and thanx for all the hard work that must have gone into this, been looking for a distro like this for years now, gentoo is a bit too manual for me, but this I could handle. Dunno if this thread is just for problems, if so, sorry for posting this in the wrong place. My installation went smooth and my lack of knowledge was the only thing that slowed each step down. But due to the great help of others on the wiki and forums, I was able to successfully browse my way through it, very nice community, on par with the vectorlinux community in helpfulness. Things not yet tackled are getting my external drive and sound configured, but I'm confident all will go fine. later y'all

ps: the install iso I used was: current-0.8-alpha3-20070116-i686.iso , grub said it failed with an error, but it had indeed installed the kernel26 img, and I had selected not to boot from usb device. After copying all the info from the new grub.conf to my other grub.conf on sabayon(which manages all my booting needs), everything booted up fine.

tpowa · 2007-01-23 06:10:20

Hi,
here we go Voodoo Beta1 ISO's released, many small things fixed since the alpha series, please try to break beta1 now, thanks

ISOs are on the way to the mirrors so please be patient until they are synced.

ftp://ftp.archlinux.org/other/0.8/i686/
ftp://ftp.archlinux.org/other/0.8/x86_64

everything mentioned here should be fixed:
http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/6031

greetings
tpowa

n8schicht · 2007-01-23 09:09:50

Hi!
After a fresh install of 0.8 from 2007-01-15 I have italic fonts on all shortcuts on my kde-desktop by default, and this is not changeable via kontrolcenter. But only shortcuts, if i copy something from the startmenu to the desktop, then the fonts will be normal. Strange...

IceRAM · 2007-01-23 09:33:57

desertViking wrote:

I could have sworn that I had installed the base system before, and basic network was enabled, but perhaps not. I haven't tried the fallback image again, but I will.

$ man ifconfig
[...]
       If no arguments are given, ifconfig displays the status of the currently active interfaces.  If a single
       interface argument is given, it displays the status of the given interface only; if a single -a argument
       is  given, it displays the status of all interfaces, even those that are down.  Otherwise, it configures
       an interface.

It is highly probable that the network card was installed but the interface was down. Running ifconfig without -a will show you only active network interfaces.

nDray · 2007-01-23 19:05:11

Will qt jump to 4.x.x?

mandos · 2007-01-23 19:17:11

what does this have to do with the 0.8 installer?

Arch uses the rolling-release-system
0.8 is ONLY the installer!
any system is up to date if you pacman -Syu it
once qt4 is out, you can pacman -Syu your system and you'll have qt4
you won't need to reinstall arch

tpowa · 2007-01-23 19:59:31

yes please only post here installation experiences,
thanks

rabid_dog · 2007-01-24 06:46:22

RabidWolf,
I know, you very proud that you have IntelP4-2.6c@3.12, ASUS-P4C800-E, 1GB-PC3500, BFGTech-7800GS, SBaudigy2, WDRaptor10K74GB, Seagate250GB, Seagate500GB(ext), PlextorDVDR-PX-716A, BENQ-DW1655, PlextorPVR-PX-TV402U, ViewsonicVX922-19", SeasonicS12APFC600W, Grub, Vector, Sabayon, ArchLinux & XPpro
but can you please insert whitespaces after commas? Horizontal scrolling isnt funny.

delmonico · 2007-01-24 10:23:57

0.8Beta:
/arch/quickinst reports "Unexpected end of file"
Can't find any harddisk when running inside a VirtualBox VM (never tried that with older versions though)

chris

tpowa · 2007-01-24 14:36:54

uh yes in quickinst was a " missing, sorry me only tested setup and not quickinst, ok should be fine for next ISO

tpowa · 2007-01-24 14:42:12

Workaround for broken quickinst:
please add a the missing " at the end of line 11 of /arch/quickinst
with your favorite editor included on the ISO

chancho · 2007-01-25 07:30:00

still can not install on asus p8b-vm.

AndyRTR · 2007-01-25 08:16:40

chancho wrote:

still can not install on asus p8b-vm.

not very helpfull. have you already posted somewhere your problem? is it not booting or where does it fail?

dolby · 2007-01-25 11:28:52

used normal installation & it worked just great. love the changes made since 0.7.2 especially the confirmation on partitioning & green colour on commented out parts of the conf files.
being able to set locale and root pass also.
pretty much quicker than my previous installation

mcover · 2007-01-25 13:51:39

Just installed Arch Linux on two machines using the latest .8 iso.

When I started, the booting stopped after GRUB. After 2 hours of trying I gave burning a 2nd CD with the new .8 iso a try - and all my problems were gone. So it was more of a problem on my side (corrupt cd). After I figured where the problem was, I installed a clean & neat Arch Linux within 30 mins.

Great job! Thanks.

kawa · 2007-01-26 07:27:08

I installed 0.8 base. The problems I had were of my own making.
I wanted to install on a "stale" partition i.e deleted all folders except /boot but then I "quickly" realised (after several attempts that Arch was not going to install on a partition that already had the menu.lst file :?

I renamed the file and successfully installed.

Thumbs up!

Penguin of Wonder · 2007-01-26 16:56:23

I downloaded the 7.3 CD and did a network install. That apparently installed version 0.8 Vodoo according to my to my boot screen.

That being the case the Vodoo worked a whole lot better than the install from the 7.3 CD. The packages worked out a whole lot better.

mandos · 2007-01-26 22:56:06

whats the 7.3cd ???

by the way, you saw voodoo because in every arch system, if you do a pacman -Syu you will see Voodoo (this happens from mid-december)
a network install gets the latest packages -> Voodoo
it is the rolling release system

what changes is the installer, which in 0.8 tries to do some better configuration (am I right people?)

Romashka · 2007-01-26 23:15:24

mandos wrote:

whats the 7.3cd ???

I think he meant tpowa's updated post-0.7.2 ISOs.

mandos · 2007-01-26 23:26:24

propably... but for a moment I got confused

soloport · 2007-01-28 04:11:36

Installed from latest x86_64 ftp-iso (with no issues). First reboot got a kernel (pointer init to zero) problem for snd_hda_codec. But the boot continued after about a two minute pause. Have blacklisted that module, for now.

Biggest problem: kdebindings-3.5.6-1 "is corrupted". Have downloaded from four ftp/http sites with same result.

Am stuck. Any suggestions about where to get an un-corrupted copy? Thanks.

AndyRTR · 2007-01-28 14:33:32

kdebindings updated. 3.5.6-1.1 is recent version. mirrors should have now. good to hear the rest is working well

soloport · 2007-01-28 18:44:07

Thanks. However, a big "duh" came over me after posting, just built it from CVS, and have moved on ;-)

Now have bigger problems. Had to backlist all sound modules or udev would report null pointer errors (snd_hda_codec) and hang. A ^C would help udev move along, but then root would mount ro and other partitions would not mount. Etc. Now everything works with udev -- nice! However, have to look into sound issues. (Motherboard supports a Realtek AL861VD/ALC883 7.1 channel audio CODEC -- and have no idea what that means, yet.)

UPDATE: udev hangs on snd_hda_intel

UPDATE II: latest kernel upgrade resolved all sound issues

Last edited by soloport (2007-02-22 16:56:26)

Lastebil · 2007-01-28 20:34:50

Ok, Followup to my problems installing on my goofy motherboard.

Everything went very smoothly once I disabled ACPI. My drives were found, it was able to initialize the net card, e100 works fine, everything worked as it should have.

You might consider putting another 2 options in that boot menu, for folks that don't know how to edit the boot menu paramaters from within grub - adding 'acpi=off' to the kernel line (normal and legacy.) Or stick that in the 'readme' that pops up initially - some of us have forgotten that this is a problem occasionally - I think in my case it was because hotplug seems to have not had the issue; I really don't know WHY I had forgotten that was an issue with this motherboard.

Anyway, I now have .. hmm, 4 systems going. One from floppies (7.2) and 3 from the beta/alpha CD's.

Were I to have my druthers, I'd like to be able to use it for "remote" installs - like the one I'm leading a friend through on irc. Or when I put it on a machine, set up a root password, and go to a machine with a nicer terminal... certainly an extra, but it's a very useful one I have found over the years.

foxbunny · 2007-01-28 21:28:24

Excellent, this beta1 CD. I decided to reinstall Arch just to try it out. It went so smooth. Release any soon? I have a bunch of people waiting for me to say: "Okay they've released."

Anyway, nice work on installer! Thx Arch dev team!

Last edited by foxbunny (2007-01-28 21:29:28)

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