First of all I'd like to say nice project. And heres my first feedback: When I tried booting it up on my LG A1 (No internal CD-Rom) it kernel paniced on me saying: Couldn't find CD-Rom. I'm more than happy to beta testa some more if the next version includes me being able too boot it up :-) Regards Rickard Eriksson Damir Perisa wrote:
Wednesday 26 March 2008, Simo Leone wrote: | I'd like to begin testing some preliminary work with the arch | livecd system. You can find a livecd rigged up to work as an ftp | installer at: | http://dev.archlinux.org/~simo/archiso_tests/arch-ftp-live-1206519 |468.iso
i'll give it a try in qemu on x86_64
| This ISO consists of our current installer scripts and a | functioning arch livecd containing most of the base package set. | It uses the grub boot loader, which is likely to be changed to | isolinux in the near future. At this point, it's an i686-only | thing, but an x86_64 version will be coming soon. | | 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 have a no-optical-drive laptop (non-macs are not able to boot from firewire cdroms) and usually i prepare a image to put on a memory-stick to boot from [1]. since this setting (no cdrom) are getting more common and having a live-linux-system on a usb-key is getting interesting i'm wondering if we should provide also a partition image[2] for such use?
- D
[1] : as described here: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Lenovo_Thinkpad_x61t_SXGA+#No_optical_dr...
[2] : partition image that can be directly written to a device e.g. with dd