i586 ISO

Ghost Dawg · 2003-09-15 05:22:48

I was looking for the i586 iso and can't seem to find it. Does anybody know what happen to it or where is it located?

I'm thinking of installing it on my IBM Thinkpad 380XD laptop. Any suggestions about using it for this setup?

A 233mhz, 96mb mem, 4gb hd, 2mb video and 24x cdrom

Thnx.

kakabaratruskia · 2003-09-15 06:14:53

Sorry to disapoint you, but I think there is no port for i586 yet.

sarah31 · 2003-09-15 06:24:52

yes there is no iso for i586 yet but there are packages ready for installing/testing via the net. there are floppy images in archlinux.org/testing/i586 use those to do a net install of the base packages in the same directory.

Ghost Dawg · 2003-09-15 07:39:25

Thanks Sarah, I'll give that a try!

drivingmsjuki · 2003-11-27 23:02:22

Hey guys, has anyone succeeded with this net install on an i586 machine? I spent some time on it today and couldn't get anywhere. Doing everything the way you were supposed to do (use the three floppies for boot, root, modules), get the network started, prep the hard drive, etc, it always hung up on downloading the packages. This was the same no matter how many were selected or not. No errors showed on VC5 to say what the issue was.

What VC5 *did* show however was that it was downloading current.tar.gz from one of the regular Arch repositories and not the i586 set. Could this be the problem?

As a workaround, I downloaded the "base" set of packages, burned them to cd, and tried installing them through the cd-rom choice, but that complained about not finding the directory /src/arch/pkg/. I burned another cd with the packages in the directory it asked for, but that didn't work either.

Probably the next step is defining a custom server (the last choice on the list of servers when you first go through the FTP install choice) and pointing it to ftp://ftp.archlinux.org/testing/i586.

Any help in the meantime would be much appreciated. Thanks again to everyone who does the work on Arch.

sarah31 · 2003-11-27 23:24:34

right now the i586 port is not ready for installing via ftp. the setup/ needs to be regenerated but i am not ready to do that until i gets xfree86 built properly. i don't know if even selecting a custom server would do the trick as i think it will still look for the setup directory.

i hope to have a net install capability soon though.

drivingmsjuki · 2003-11-28 00:01:05

OK, so you have to define the server as the custom type like I guessed. After that, the only real problem was that the following packages were missing from the "base" set:

fileutils
sh-utils
textutils

.. but so far it's working correctly.

And before attempting to run pacman, you need to edit down /etc/pacman.conf so that the single current respository is that same i586 directory at ftp.archlinux.org.

This will give an old laptop a new lease on life so it can go be a demo linux machine for someone who wants to learn.

drivingmsjuki · 2003-11-28 00:02:43

Sarah, thanks for the info .. sorry I was offline and didn't see the reply.
Happy turkey day!

sarah31 · 2003-11-28 01:18:33

fileutils
sh-utils
textutils
were all replaced by core utils. such changes are not reflected in in the i586 setup directory.

drivingmsjuki · 2003-11-30 17:24:53

Thanks again for the info Sarah.

That particular laptop is memory-limited anyway so later I tried installing FreeBSD 5.1 on it - without reading the instructions first! Now that was an anusing way to spend the afternoon But here I am being a distro slut again.

On first impressions, FreeBSD is yet another implementation of the Unix concept, though somewhat more scaled-down than Linux is. It was missing some of the basic commandline utils and I couldn't find them in the ports collection. Updating the box doesn't seem to be a painless easy procedure such as with Arch. But I'll try it again and get to know it better.

Looking forward to i586 Arch when it's available ..

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