Thomas Bächler schrieb:

I just got confirmation for my order of 100 Arch CDs from a local company (http://www.icoco.de). This will cost the Arch donation pot 260€ which I already received from Aaron.

The CDs should be ready tomorrow or at the beginning of next week and will be given away for free at FrOSCon. They are created by copying the squashfs images, initramfs images, kernels and bootloaders from the official 2009.08 core ISOs to create one ISO for both architectures.

I had to remove the legacy-ide initramfs images so everything would fit on one disc (had about 5MB too much for a non-overburned image). Providing virtually nobody will need legacy-ide drivers nowadays, it doesn't matter (with 2.6.30, all ide devices should be supported by libata).

I will send photos as soon as I get the CDs.

I just collected and paid the CDs. Tried one and it booted on qemu with the i686 kernel, will do another few tests at home (but as the image booted fine at home when I burned it myself, I guess it will work). Will send a few photos later, but I can tell you now that they look great.

On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 18:53, Thomas Bächler wrote:

Thomas Bächler schrieb:

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I will send photos as soon as I get the CDs.

I just collected and paid the CDs. Tried one and it booted on qemu with the i686 kernel, will do another few tests at home (but as the image booted fine at home when I burned it myself, I guess it will work).

Will send a few photos later, but I can tell you now that they look great.

And pictures: http://dev.archlinux.org/~thomas/cds_froscon

I found a bug. :-P The copyright/trademark text contains ArchLinux while on labels that Thayer sent me it is Arch Linux. Other than that they look good. Do you guys think we need more? (I want to know how many disks I should lightscribe/print) -- Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)

On Sat, 15 Aug 2009 10:47:09 +0200 Thomas Bächler wrote:

Roman Kyrylych schrieb:

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I found a bug. :-P The copyright/trademark text contains ArchLinux while on labels that Thayer sent me it is Arch Linux.

I noticed that too.

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Other than that they look good. Do you guys think we need more? (I want to know how many disks I should lightscribe/print)

Last year, we gave away 80 CDs during the 2 days at the booth, then we walked around and gave away another 10 to people who didn't want them (like the Ubuntu booth). We kept the last 10 for ourselves.

Probably the reason Thomas ordered x cd's is because he/we estimated x would be enough. If he thought we would need y cd's instead, he would probably have ordered y ;-) Dieter

Dieter Plaetinck schrieb:

I forgot to add: - the cd's look nice - weren't there fancy boxes for the cd's as well last year? (not saying we need them again now, but they did look very nice :-)

No, they were just like this year. http://users.archlinux.de/~pierre/froscon/2008/2008-08-23_14-02-47.jpg

- on one hand it's good that you don't put the 'word' 2009.08 on it, as these are modified versions, on the other hand it saddens me a bit our official images are still not "usable enough by default" for this kind of thing. next year official images will be dual-arch and whatnot so you don't need to modify them ;-)

Only the bootloader was modified, the initramfs, kernel and squashfs images are identical copies of what we have in 2009.08.