2010.05 snapshots. Less is more.

Dieter@be · 2010-05-17 20:38:59

Hi,
New installation media are available.
There are less of them, and they are smaller. But they can do more...

Notable changes:

Archiso (image builds):
* all iso files can now be burned onto CD's as well as written to media like usb sticks (isohybrid)
* more than half of the packages in core are now xz compressed
* next to the single architecture images we provide dual images which can be used as 32bit or 64bit medium
* use isolinux bootloader exclusively for booting the live media
* snapshot of current core, including kernel 2.6.33.4-1, pacman-3.3.3-5 and glibc-2.11.1-3
* updated memtest
* support for PXE booting
* provide wpa_supplicant
* support virtio

AIF (installation tool):
* ability to choose uuid/label/devicefile blockdevice representation; automatically applied in menu.lst, fstab, etc
* split off UI library into separate libui-sh project
* support virtio blockdevices
* allow user to specify additional custom arguments for mkfs and the like

Additionally, quite some bugs have been fixed, mostly in AIF.
And of course, the Official installation guide has been updated to reflect these changes.

Thanks to everyone who contributed, this release took a long time but I think it's worth it.

Download
List of packages

wonder · 2010-05-17 22:09:33

/me opens a bottle of champagne

Last edited by wonder (2010-05-17 23:41:49)

Surgat_ · 2010-05-17 22:17:24

Seeding

combuster · 2010-05-17 22:33:13

Congratulations !!! Downloading....

coldflame23 · 2010-05-17 23:06:53

seeding

flamelab · 2010-05-17 23:40:56

wonder wrote:

/me opens the a bottle of champagne

Cheers !

Nice to see a new snapshot

tuxfusion · 2010-05-17 23:44:50

iso == img ?
"Dual Arch" ?
Black grub greeting screen ?

Thank you so much for you work, seeding

Taking a humble bow ...

anonymous_user · 2010-05-17 23:46:26

That is one sexy greeting screen

Also thanks for the hard work on the new images.

Last edited by anonymous_user (2010-05-17 23:46:52)

relgueta · 2010-05-18 02:36:37

grub1 or grub2?

falconindy · 2010-05-18 02:41:33

Neither -- its syslinux. Arch, once installed, will still install grub legacy.

relgueta · 2010-05-18 02:54:33

falconindy wrote:

Neither -- its syslinux. Arch, once installed, will still install grub legacy.

thnkz

Borosai · 2010-05-18 03:10:47

Great work on the installer.

evr · 2010-05-18 03:29:26

wow, the release looks great. Awesome job!

binskipy2u · 2010-05-18 05:01:27

if you have a good working system and pacman -Syyu
you should be good to go, as if installing a new system right? in other words is there any reason to use the new image to re-install arch if you have it updated with pacman?

just wondering

Allan · 2010-05-18 05:14:57

binskipy2u wrote:

if you have a good working system and pacman -Syyu
you should be good to go, as if installing a new system right? in other words is there any reason to use the new image to re-install arch if you have it updated with pacman?
just wondering

Correct. There is no reason to reinstall a working system. "pacman -Syu" will get you to the same point (or even more updated...).

brain0 · 2010-05-18 07:28:18

There's no reason to reinstall the system, but there's always a reason to get the latest ISO and boot it every now and then, just for fun.

evot · 2010-05-18 08:10:05

Nice one

Just visited distrowatch and there it is..

wollew · 2010-05-18 08:26:39

Thank you for this.

One thing I'm missing is "Midnight Commander". Would be nice if this usefull tool would be added in future versions.

Last edited by wollew (2010-05-18 08:27:18)

brain0 · 2010-05-18 08:35:26

wollew wrote:

Thank you for this.
One thing I'm missing is "Midnight Commander". Would be nice if this usefull tool would be added in future versions.

You can use pacman in the live system to install things.

wollew · 2010-05-18 08:44:00

I know, but if there is no internet connection, i.e. when using as a rescue system ?
Would it be possible, to add programs myself ? Can you describe the way to do this ? Looking into the iso, i guess those additions should be added to the appropriate sqfs-file (core-pkgs.sqfs?)

meijin · 2010-05-18 09:23:47

looks awesome.
seeding

ga01f4733 · 2010-05-18 09:52:12

great!
seeding

fabertawe · 2010-05-18 09:53:37

Seeding - lovely stuff.

litemotiv · 2010-05-18 09:55:22

great work guys, thanks

plmday · 2010-05-18 10:15:44

The two 1st features in Archiso and AIF are cute, I've awaiting them for long. Great job, thanks.

Arch Linux

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