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Skylar

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Registered: 2007-08-07

Posts: 4

Re: 2007.08 Don't Panic Isos released, installation feedback

Don't Panic iso seems little bit buggy, disablehooks doesnt work for me at all. still freezing at arch-addons

pressh

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From: Netherlands

Registered: 2005-08-14

Posts: 1,719

Re: 2007.08 Don't Panic Isos released, installation feedback

Did a quick install on my backup partition to test it, no problems, everythiing went as expected
Great work again!

dolby

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From: 1992

Registered: 2006-08-08

Posts: 1,581

Re: 2007.08 Don't Panic Isos released, installation feedback

hmm even weirder is the fact that the Duke ftp iso didnt work quite well either. it downloaded the packages but u couldnt actually see them downloading in /dev/tty5 & also it couldnt generate locale which is even weirder beacause that was only an issue on the linuxtag iso.
anyway i installed for the first time from a base iso (a dont panic one) and worked very well.
i have no idea what would cause the ftp isos to behave like that though

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Nexx

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Registered: 2007-08-08

Posts: 11

Re: 2007.08 Don't Panic Isos released, installation feedback

Installation worked perfectly!

The only error was:

INIT: Id "c0" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes

but that could be because I have the serial ports on this machine disabled.

Fantastic work, keep it up!

freigeist

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From: Cologne, Germany

Registered: 2006-07-14

Posts: 191

Re: 2007.08 Don't Panic Isos released, installation feedback

Installed it yesterday on my Thinkpad X60s. Review here

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Doehni

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From: Germany

Registered: 2007-05-19

Posts: 175

Re: 2007.08 Don't Panic Isos released, installation feedback

I have the same problem as Skylar
even with disablehooks=arch-addons the boot prcess stops at:

NTFS driver 2.1.28 [Flags: R/W MODULE].
NTFS volume version 3.1.

When I try other bootoptions (except ide-legacy) my partitions won't be recongised. Not to good for install, is it? ;-)

EDIT: this works for me to come to the shell: arch --ide-legacy --disablehooks=arch-addons
BUT: I still see no partitions... (With Duke CD install works)

Last edited by Doehni (2007-08-09 17:47:04)

wollew

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Registered: 2007-08-08

Posts: 18

Re: 2007.08 Don't Panic Isos released, installation feedback

exactly same boot problem here (I posted it in http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=36065).
Tried al combinations of boot options, no success.
The ARCH-CD boots perfectly on an another PC, equipped with a harddisk with equivalent partitions (NTFS, FAT32, EXT3, Swap).

Dzaro

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Registered: 2006-11-06

Posts: 24

Re: 2007.08 Don't Panic Isos released, installation feedback

Same problem for me. I tried install arch on clean hard disk and everything worked well. So i decided to install on disk with windows partition - unsuccesfull.
For me one possible solution - since i don't use it anymore i can finally get rid of windows

archiebald

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Registered: 2007-06-03

Posts: 90

Re: 2007.08 Don't Panic Isos released, installation feedback

I did clean install. As normal user if I do startx I get

/usr/share/fonts/misc:unscaled" refcount is 2, should be 1; fixing

I know it's not big deal, but with "Duke" this was not a case. Good name for this release: "Don't panic".

Lone_Wolf

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From: Netherlands, Europe

Registered: 2005-10-04

Posts: 12,926

Re: 2007.08 Don't Panic Isos released, installation feedback

/usr/share/fonts/misc:unscaled" refcount is 2, should be 1; fixing

That error message has been around a very long time.
Noone seems to know where it comes from, but it appears to be harmless.

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Eliteforce

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Registered: 2006-03-26

Posts: 56

Re: 2007.08 Don't Panic Isos released, installation feedback

NTFS driver 2.1.28 [Flags: R/W MODULE].
NTFS volume version 3.1.

*hangs*

stargeizer

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Registered: 2004-04-05

Posts: 8

Re: 2007.08 Don't Panic Isos released, installation feedback

not working here also. tpowa solution doesn't work.

specs:
Toshiba laptop satellite M30
512 MB Ram
windows xp present, dual booting.

xaw

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From: Chapel Hill

Registered: 2007-08-09

Posts: 177

Re: 2007.08 Don't Panic Isos released, installation feedback

Install cd worked perfectly here.

The install cd doesn't hang on my laptop for the following

NTFS driver 2.1.28 [Flags: R/W MODULE].
NTFS volume version 3.1.

specs:
lenovo 3000 n100
2 gb ram
windows vista home premium present (factory preinstall), dual boot with grub

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tpowa

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From: Lauingen , Germany

Registered: 2004-04-05

Posts: 2,328

Re: 2007.08 Don't Panic Isos released, installation feedback

somewhere a bug in ntfs. i'll try to fix this soon or at least disable this ntfs mounting.

streetbmx

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Registered: 2005-04-13

Posts: 7

Re: 2007.08 Don't Panic Isos released, installation feedback

I'm having the same problem.

NTFS driver 2.1.28 [Flags: R/W MODULE].
NTFS volume version 3.1.

On a Dell 700m laptop. I used arch --disablehooks=arch-addons and was finally able to get to the command prompt, however no hard drives were visible in the setup.

High|ander

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From: Skövde, Sweden

Registered: 2005-10-28

Posts: 188

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Re: 2007.08 Don't Panic Isos released, installation feedback

Got the same NTFS problem. I installed from the Duke release instead, worked like a charm

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miko

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From: Poland

Registered: 2006-04-16

Posts: 49

Re: 2007.08 Don't Panic Isos released, installation feedback

somewhere a bug in ntfs. i'll try to fix this soon or at least disable this ntfs mounting.

I had the same problem trying it on old desktop (CPU Celleron 600MHz, 128MB RAM). Archie 2007.08 also hung. I succesfully run faunos based on 2.6.21 kernel (previous two are 2.6.22 based). But then faunos hung when I tried "mount /dev/hda1 /mnt" exactly like the previous two. But when I used "ntfs-3g /dev/hda1 /mnt" it worked. So it seems to me that ntfs in-kernel driver is the cause of the problem.

Regards,
miko

Talkless

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Registered: 2007-08-14

Posts: 9

Re: 2007.08 Don't Panic Isos released, installation feedback

The same problem here...
2x NTFS partitions, Ext3, Swap.

Friend of mine has the same configuration, but had no problems with Don't Panic.

tpowa

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From: Lauingen , Germany

Registered: 2004-04-05

Posts: 2,328

Re: 2007.08 Don't Panic Isos released, installation feedback

could it be that only special ntfs partitions make trouble?
i have no ntfs and windows anymore since ages

Eliteforce

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Registered: 2006-03-26

Posts: 56

Re: 2007.08 Don't Panic Isos released, installation feedback

could it be that only special ntfs partitions make trouble?
i have no ntfs and windows anymore since ages

what do you mean with special? i dont think there's a special type or version of ntfs partitions. but probably the partition layout is confusing something.

mine looks like this
sda1 primary ntfs
extended
sda5 ntfs
sda6 ntfs
sda8 ext3
sda7 swap

Lone_Wolf

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From: Netherlands, Europe

Registered: 2005-10-04

Posts: 12,926

Re: 2007.08 Don't Panic Isos released, installation feedback

Actually there are 5 versions of NTFS :
version 1 and 1.1 -  used in early windows nt versions
version 1.2  - NT 3.51 and NT 4
version 3.0 - Windows 2000
version 3.1 - Windows xp
Although windows 2003 & vista seem to use the same version as windows xp, they offer some ntfs features that xp doesn't.

If those with problems with ntfs during installing would tell us the windows version they used to create the ntfs partition, it might help troubleshooting.

Last edited by Lone_Wolf (2007-08-17 08:59:30)

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Doehni

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From: Germany

Registered: 2007-05-19

Posts: 175

Re: 2007.08 Don't Panic Isos released, installation feedback

My patition table:
/dev/hda1    Windows XP                  22 GB
/dev/hda2     Linux / (was Reiser)     9.2 GB
extended:
/dev/hda5     Linux Swap                 220 MB
/dev/hda6     VFat                           6.0 GB

miko

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From: Poland

Registered: 2006-04-16

Posts: 49

Re: 2007.08 Don't Panic Isos released, installation feedback

Actually there are 5 versions of NTFS :
version 1 and 1.1 -  used in early windows nt versions
version 1.2  - NT 3.51 and NT 4
version 3.0 - Windows 2000
version 3.1 - Windows xp
Although windows 2003 & vista seem to use the same version as windows xp, they offer some ntfs features that xp doesn't.

If those with problems with ntfs during installing would tell us the windows version they used to create the ntfs partition, it might help troubleshooting.

In my case (and I suppose in all others) the last message is:

NTFS volume version 3.1.

And everyone wrote about WinXP as I remember.

And, as I wrote earlier, I had similar hung after "mount /dev/sda1 /mnt" on FaunOS with 2.6.21 kernel, while "ntfs-3g /dev/sda1 /mnt" worked fine.
So it seems to me like the original in-kernel ntfs driver has problems mounting XP partitions.

Regards,
miko

Eliteforce

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Registered: 2006-03-26

Posts: 56

Re: 2007.08 Don't Panic Isos released, installation feedback

winxp was used to create the partitions

Talkless

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Registered: 2007-08-14

Posts: 9

Re: 2007.08 Don't Panic Isos released, installation feedback

In my case (and I suppose in all others) the last message is:

NTFS volume version 3.1.

Mine too.

I got two partitions created by WinXP.

Last edited by Talkless (2007-08-18 11:47:45)