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dolby

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Re: 2007.11-0.4 Isos released, installation feedback

the perl move to 5.10 has to be completed probably before that. and tpowa has to make time in order to build the isos . if not in february, maybe withing the first 1-2 weeks in march. according to my estimation.

Last edited by dolby (2008-02-14 14:46:16)

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mivo

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From: Germany

Registered: 2007-11-13

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Re: 2007.11-0.4 Isos released, installation feedback

I'm also looking forward to the new ISOs. Considering to switch my "main" desktop back to Arch from Ubuntu, but would prefer to do that with the new ISOs, just for convenience and speed (down speed maxes out at 46k/s). Thanks for the effort, by the way!

ekerazha

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Registered: 2007-02-27

Posts: 290

Re: 2007.11-0.4 Isos released, installation feedback

A 2.6.24 based ISO would be good for people who encrypt the disk before installing Arch, because the new kernel supports the XTS block cipher.

DrCR

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Registered: 2007-10-08

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Re: 2007.11-0.4 Isos released, installation feedback

Looking forward to new isos as well. Will be using it to install Arch both to my PC and my Santa Rosa MacBook Pro. Do we have any sort of ETA? Just curious.
Keep up the good work mates!

Romashka

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Registered: 2005-12-07

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Re: 2007.11-0.4 Isos released, installation feedback

Cannot give any date, but new ISOs are planned to be released soon (which means - as soon as they will be ready for testing).

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quad3d@work

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From: Austin, TX

Registered: 2006-12-29

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Re: 2007.11-0.4 Isos released, installation feedback

Not sure if it's just me or what...

/tmp/ have permission of 755 and -t.

ibendiben

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Registered: 2007-10-10

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Re: 2007.11-0.4 Isos released, installation feedback

Not sure if it's just me or what...
/tmp/ have permission of 755 and -t.

http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/9560
You are right, but it's not only you... it's the filesystem (-6) as I understand it. Hopefully fixed in filesystem (-7). And the coming installer.
EDIT: Just read another bugreport on the bad /tmp permissions, from there the conclusion is the issue is fixable by updating pacman before updating the filesystem package.
http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/9465
chmod 1777 /tmp and chmod +t /tmp should do the trick otherwise... (if I'm correct)

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Romashka

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Re: 2007.11-0.4 Isos released, installation feedback

filesystem-2008.02-2 is in Testing, all known bugs fixed

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DrCR

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Re: 2007.11-0.4 Isos released, installation feedback

Cannot give any date, but new ISOs are planned to be released soon (which means - as soon as they will be ready for testing).

Thanks for the update. Looking forward to them.

buddabrod

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From: Germany

Registered: 2007-02-25

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Re: 2007.11-0.4 Isos released, installation feedback

A 2.6.24 based ISO would be good for people who encrypt the disk before installing Arch, because the new kernel supports the XTS block cipher.

Nah, that's still experimental and i wouldn't rely on that. It only brings you more security if you encrypt your swap with it, for standard partitions like /home or so aes/twofish-lrn-benbi is more than sufficient. If one is totally paranoid, he should use serpent.

ekerazha

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Registered: 2007-02-27

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Re: 2007.11-0.4 Isos released, installation feedback

A 2.6.24 based ISO would be good for people who encrypt the disk before installing Arch, because the new kernel supports the XTS block cipher.

Nah, that's still experimental and i wouldn't rely on that. It only brings you more security if you encrypt your swap with it, for standard partitions like /home or so aes/twofish-lrn-benbi is more than sufficient. If one is totally paranoid, he should use serpent.

LRW-benbi is experimental too, the only "stable" block cipher is the CBC one. XTS is more secure than both LRW and CBC(-essiv).

julemand101

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Registered: 2005-11-25

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Re: 2007.11-0.4 Isos released, installation feedback

I have very slow boot after updated to the new initscripts in testing:
http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/9648

kozzi

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Registered: 2006-06-24

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Re: 2007.11-0.4 Isos released, installation feedback

yes me too

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kozzi

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Re: 2007.11-0.4 Isos released, installation feedback

New initscripts are slower abaout 10 second my pc, but main problem of speed is udev, witj new udev and new initscripts my computer starting 1m and 30s to X, with old initscript and new udev its about 1m and 20s but with old initscripts and old udev its 35 s

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Romashka

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Re: 2007.11-0.4 Isos released, installation feedback

could we please move discussion of udev (not initscripts) slowness to another topic?
this has nothing to do with 2007.11-0.4

and btw, "old initscript and new udev its about 1m and 20s" should not work at all because they check for start_udev which doesn't exist in new udev, and thus fall back to static /dev and startup fails because no /dev/sda* exists

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kozzi

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Re: 2007.11-0.4 Isos released, installation feedback

and btw, "old initscript and new udev its about 1m and 20s" should not work at all because they check for start_udev which doesn't exist in new udev, and thus fall back to static /dev and startup fails because no /dev/sda* exists

Yshould work, because a copy start_udev from old udev package

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cr7

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Registered: 2006-11-28

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Re: 2007.11-0.4 Isos released, installation feedback

Still no news about the new ISO?

kozzi

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Re: 2007.11-0.4 Isos released, installation feedback

read mailing list
http://archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev … 05228.html
http://archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev … 05122.html

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cr7

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Registered: 2006-11-28

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Re: 2007.11-0.4 Isos released, installation feedback

Thank you, the last time I checked there wasn't anything about that.

tpowa

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From: Lauingen , Germany

Registered: 2004-04-05

Posts: 2,328

Re: 2007.11-0.4 Isos released, installation feedback

New isos available for testing.
locking now, please continue here:
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=45897