Simo Leone wrote:
If you've got some time to kill, please give the iso a whirl. You'll find the installer and its documentation in its usual home at /arch/ on the livecd system. It'd be nice to have this tested on a large variety of systems if possible.
I had some time to kill and a system to reinstall :)
**I need feedback on the following regarding ISO bootup** - Did the grub loader work as expected?
yes
- Did it pick up and load the module for your network hardware?
It even loaded two, but well sadly, it didn't work twice better, I was so disappointed. No seriously, there are both the iwl3945 and ipw3945 drivers available for that chipset, and both modules seemed to be loaded. In dmesg, I only saw the iwl3945 which failed to initialize because of missing firmware. Looking at /lib/firmware, it seems the ipw firmware was there, but not the iwl one. I simply added the iwl firmware, removed both modules and reloaded iwl3945 and it all worked well. I have a preference for iwl because it's included in the kernel and removes the need of that crappy daemon, but many people have big troubles with it. Maybe one of them should still be disabled by default. Anyway, it's not a big deal, and it's very easy to fix, but since you asked :)
- Did it pick up and load the modules for your disk controllers?
yes
- Any kernel panics, freezes, that sort of ugly stuff.
Nothing that ugly.
Please keep in mind that this is not intended to be production quality at this point, and it's a very early version, so there are still a lot of sharp edges that need to be smoothed out.
Well I found it rather amazing for a very early version.