[arch-general] ArcLlinux 2009.02 installation issues

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Ciprian Dorin, Craciun

16 Sep 2009 16 Sep '09

4:23 p.m.

Hello all! During my installation trials for ArchLinux 2009.02, I've stumbled upon some issues that I describe below. First one (the most minor and insignificant one), is that when you login as root in the installation system, it says as MOTD that you should read the documentation found in /arch/<some-file-name>, when in fact the file is in /arch/docs/<some-file-name>. Anyway. The second problem is a little bit more tricky... I want to install ArchLinux under a domU Xen virtual machine. So the only method (without using HVM) is to boot from the USB disk image, and try to perform the installation over serial the console. The problem is that by default ArchLinux does not include ttyS0 in inittab or in securetty, so I have to manually mount the disk as loopback, end edit the files appropriately... Thus my feature request is: could you include in the default install images also the ttyS0 and ttyS1 as usable terminals? Thanks, Ciprian.

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Daenyth Blank

16 Sep 16 Sep

7:06 p.m.

On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 10:23, Ciprian Dorin, Craciun wrote:

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Hello all!

During my installation trials for ArchLinux 2009.02, I've stumbled upon some issues that I describe below.

Please file bugs at http://bugs.archlinux.org (Release Engineering project)

Roman Kyrylych

9:28 p.m.

On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 17:23, Ciprian Dorin, Craciun wrote:

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The problem is that by default ArchLinux does not include ttyS0 in inittab or in securetty, so I have to manually mount the disk as loopback, end edit the files appropriately... Thus my feature request is: could you include in the default install images also the ttyS0 and ttyS1 as usable terminals?

Hm, I think archboot-based install CD had this feature (at least old bug about it is marked as fixed), not sure about it now, but archboot ISOs are regularly updated. Of course it would be nice to have the support in official ISOs, so please feel a feature requset about it on our bugtracker. -- Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)

Tom K

11:19 p.m.

Ciprian Dorin, Craciun wrote:

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Hello all!

During my installation trials for ArchLinux 2009.02, I've stumbled upon some issues that I describe below.

Why are you using 2009.02? 2009.08 was released last month. T.

Ciprian Dorin, Craciun

17 Sep 17 Sep

7:06 a.m.

On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 12:19 AM, Tom K wrote:

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Ciprian Dorin, Craciun wrote:

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Hello all!

During my installation trials for ArchLinux 2009.02, I've stumbled upon some issues that I describe below.

Why are you using 2009.02? 2009.08 was released last month.

T.

Sorry. I'm using 2009.08. But when I've posted on the mailing list I've looked on www.archlinux.org/download for the current version, and on this page all the downloads are 2009.02. (I've downloaded the files a few days ago, and on my computer they are with the name 2009.08.) Any problems with the site? I also want to mention that my proposed solution (mounting the disk as loopback, and editing inittab) does not work, because the disk contains a squashfs image of the root, so it's practically impossible to do this... So I've found a workaround: edit the file hooks/archiso from the initrd to append the lines to the files in real_root, just after the squashfs images are mounted, and just before giving the control to init. (Unfortunately it took me half a day to figure out this hack...) Ciprian.

Dieter Plaetinck

9:57 a.m.

New subject: [arch-general] Incorrect downloads page (WAS ArcLlinux 2009.02 installation issues)

On Thu, 17 Sep 2009 08:06:41 +0300 "Ciprian Dorin, Craciun" wrote:

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On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 12:19 AM, Tom K wrote:

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Why are you using 2009.02? 2009.08 was released last month.

T.

Sorry. I'm using 2009.08.

But when I've posted on the mailing list I've looked on www.archlinux.org/download for the current version, and on this page all the downloads are 2009.02. (I've downloaded the files a few days ago, and on my computer they are with the name 2009.08.) Any problems with the site?

For 2009.08 the downloads page was updated here and there. now http://www.archlinux.org/download/ shows the old page with the 2009.02 stuff anyone know how this happened? (server upgrade?) can we restore the correct page? Dieter

Pyther

1:43 p.m.

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On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 3:57 AM, Dieter Plaetinck wrote:

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On Thu, 17 Sep 2009 08:06:41 +0300 "Ciprian Dorin, Craciun" wrote:

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On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 12:19 AM, Tom K wrote:

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Why are you using 2009.02? 2009.08 was released last month.

T.

Sorry. I'm using 2009.08.

But when I've posted on the mailing list I've looked on www.archlinux.org/download for the current version, and on this page all the downloads are 2009.02. (I've downloaded the files a few days ago, and on my computer they are with the name 2009.08.) Any problems with the site?

For 2009.08 the downloads page was updated here and there. now http://www.archlinux.org/download/ shows the old page with the 2009.02 stuff

anyone know how this happened? (server upgrade?) can we restore the correct page?

Dieter

http://bugs.archlinux.org

Pierre Schmitz

1:52 p.m.

New subject: [arch-general] Incorrect downloads page (WAS ArcLlinux 2009.02 installation issues)

Am Donnerstag 17 September 2009 09:57:44 schrieb Dieter Plaetinck:

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For 2009.08 the downloads page was updated here and there. now http://www.archlinux.org/download/ shows the old page with the 2009.02 stuff

anyone know how this happened? (server upgrade?) can we restore the correct page?

Dieter

forwarding to Dusty. I think htose cahgnes weren't commited to git. -- Pierre Schmitz, http://users.archlinux.de/~pierre

Dan McGee

2:04 p.m.

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On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 6:52 AM, Pierre Schmitz wrote:

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Am Donnerstag 17 September 2009 09:57:44 schrieb Dieter Plaetinck:

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For 2009.08 the downloads page was updated here and there. now http://www.archlinux.org/download/ shows the old page with the 2009.02 stuff

anyone know how this happened? (server upgrade?) can we restore the correct page?

Dieter

forwarding to Dusty. I think htose cahgnes weren't commited to git.

Dusty is MIA for a bit without an internet connection. Where is the patch for this? I can apply it sometime. -Dan

Aaron Griffin

5:47 p.m.

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On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 7:04 AM, Dan McGee wrote:

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On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 6:52 AM, Pierre Schmitz wrote:

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Am Donnerstag 17 September 2009 09:57:44 schrieb Dieter Plaetinck:

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For 2009.08 the downloads page was updated here and there. now http://www.archlinux.org/download/ shows the old page with the 2009.02 stuff

anyone know how this happened? (server upgrade?) can we restore the correct page?

Dieter

forwarding to Dusty. I think htose cahgnes weren't commited to git.

Dusty is MIA for a bit without an internet connection. Where is the patch for this? I can apply it sometime.

It was likely done in place and never commited. I made the change and pushed it to git. If someone has a chance, can you release this live?

Pierre Schmitz

5:52 p.m.

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Am Donnerstag 17 September 2009 17:47:52 schrieb Aaron Griffin:

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If someone has a chance, can you release this live?

done -- Pierre Schmitz, http://users.archlinux.de/~pierre

Pierre Schmitz

6 p.m.

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Am Donnerstag 17 September 2009 17:52:24 schrieb Pierre Schmitz:

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Am Donnerstag 17 September 2009 17:47:52 schrieb Aaron Griffin:

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If someone has a chance, can you release this live?

done

Well, some links are wrong; mainly all to http://archlinux.org. They should be replaced by ftp links. PS: No, I cannot commit there. :-) -- Pierre Schmitz, http://users.archlinux.de/~pierre

Dieter Plaetinck

6:08 p.m.

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On Thu, 17 Sep 2009 18:00:48 +0200 Pierre Schmitz wrote:

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Am Donnerstag 17 September 2009 17:52:24 schrieb Pierre Schmitz:

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Am Donnerstag 17 September 2009 17:47:52 schrieb Aaron Griffin:

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If someone has a chance, can you release this live?

done

Well, some links are wrong; mainly all to http://archlinux.org. They should be replaced by ftp links.

PS: No, I cannot commit there. :-)

there were more changes then just the version. (eg ftp -> netinstall and such) to be sure it's probably easiest to find a mirrored copy. however http://74.125.77.132/search?q=cache:http://www.archlinux.org/download/ is too up to date. and http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://archlinux.org/download doesn't have enough versions :( Dieter

Aaron Griffin

6:37 p.m.

New subject: [arch-general] Incorrect downloads page (WAS ArcLlinux 2009.02 installation issues)

On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 11:08 AM, Dieter Plaetinck wrote:

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On Thu, 17 Sep 2009 18:00:48 +0200 Pierre Schmitz wrote:

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Am Donnerstag 17 September 2009 17:52:24 schrieb Pierre Schmitz:

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Am Donnerstag 17 September 2009 17:47:52 schrieb Aaron Griffin:

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If someone has a chance, can you release this live?

done

Well, some links are wrong; mainly all to http://archlinux.org. They should be replaced by ftp links.

PS: No, I cannot commit there. :-)

there were more changes then just the version. (eg ftp -> netinstall and such) to be sure it's probably easiest to find a mirrored copy. however http://74.125.77.132/search?q=cache:http://www.archlinux.org/download/ is too up to date. and http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://archlinux.org/download doesn't have enough versions :(

Made some changes and pushed. Hope I got everything

Dieter Plaetinck

8:41 p.m.

New subject: [arch-general] Incorrect downloads page (WAS ArcLlinux 2009.02 installation issues)

On Thu, 17 Sep 2009 11:37:09 -0500 Aaron Griffin wrote:

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On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 11:08 AM, Dieter Plaetinck wrote:

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On Thu, 17 Sep 2009 18:00:48 +0200 Pierre Schmitz wrote:

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Am Donnerstag 17 September 2009 17:52:24 schrieb Pierre Schmitz:

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Am Donnerstag 17 September 2009 17:47:52 schrieb Aaron Griffin:

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If someone has a chance, can you release this live?

done

Well, some links are wrong; mainly all to http://archlinux.org. They should be replaced by ftp links.

PS: No, I cannot commit there. :-)

there were more changes then just the version. (eg ftp -> netinstall and such) to be sure it's probably easiest to find a mirrored copy. however http://74.125.77.132/search?q=cache:http://www.archlinux.org/download/ is too up to date. and http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://archlinux.org/download doesn't have enough versions :(

Made some changes and pushed. Hope I got everything

It still links to non-existing ftp images (they are netinstall now) I think we also restructured the entire page. not sure.. Dieter

Aaron Griffin

8:47 p.m.

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On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 1:41 PM, Dieter Plaetinck wrote:

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On Thu, 17 Sep 2009 11:37:09 -0500 Aaron Griffin wrote:

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On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 11:08 AM, Dieter Plaetinck wrote:

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On Thu, 17 Sep 2009 18:00:48 +0200 Pierre Schmitz wrote:

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Am Donnerstag 17 September 2009 17:52:24 schrieb Pierre Schmitz:

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Am Donnerstag 17 September 2009 17:47:52 schrieb Aaron Griffin:

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If someone has a chance, can you release this live?

done

Well, some links are wrong; mainly all to http://archlinux.org. They should be replaced by ftp links.

PS: No, I cannot commit there. :-)

there were more changes then just the version. (eg ftp -> netinstall and such) to be sure it's probably easiest to find a mirrored copy. however http://74.125.77.132/search?q=cache:http://www.archlinux.org/download/ is too up to date. and http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://archlinux.org/download doesn't have enough versions :(

Made some changes and pushed. Hope I got everything

It still links to non-existing ftp images (they are netinstall now) I think we also restructured the entire page. not sure..

Feel free to provide a git patch. I made what changes I could see (Pierre or Dan, I trust you guys with the web side more than myself - could you make those changes live?)

Pierre Schmitz

9:26 p.m.

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Am Donnerstag 17 September 2009 20:47:19 schrieb Aaron Griffin:

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Feel free to provide a git patch. I made what changes I could see (Pierre or Dan, I trust you guys with the web side more than myself - could you make those changes live?)

Looks fine to me now; pushed the changes to gudrun (this sound funny somehow...) -- Pierre Schmitz, http://users.archlinux.de/~pierre

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Daenyth Blank
Dan McGee
Dieter Plaetinck
Pierre Schmitz
Pyther
Roman Kyrylych
Tom K