On Thu, 6 May 2010 10:01:22 +0800 Daniel Lin <dlin.tw@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi, Dieter,

I found you modified aif recently. I'm not sure are you the proper person to answer these question.

Could I ask some issues which occurs when I install the ArchLinux?

The short description here ------------------------------------- 1. The install iso lacks support boot from FAT32 partition. 2. There is a mkfs.btr, but the install script haven't support the btr mount partition type 3. could the boot directoy's name changed to boot.arch.i686/ and put all squeshfs files in that directory? That's let my usb stick could boot multiple bootable cdrom easier.(I wish put x86_64 & x86 boot image in one usb stick). 4. Is it possible to reduce to boot media's size to smaller such as 10 or 30 Mbytes? I've seen debian/slax's net boot image is much smaller then ArchLinux's current image size.

The long description here ------------------------------------ I use GRUB4DOS as my boot loader. (I'm also grub4dos's maintainer in Arch Linux). I extract 2009.08 net-install iso files into a FAT32 partition of USB stick. And chain the menu by GRUB's configfile option.

It failed when I just change the menu.lst's boot entry, it seems treat the VFAT as ext2/ext3 partition. kernel ... archisolabel=MY_VFAT32_LABEL So, I manual type commands on ramfs prompt to let it bootable. ln -sf /dev/sdb1 /dev/archiso mount -t vfat /dev/archiso /bootmnt exit If we try to enhance this boot media, that's will let novice user easier to install arch.

1) i have no clue about that stuff. ask on arch-releng, maybe there's something on the bugtracker. 2) patches welcome. see btrfs thread on arch-general 3) we have dual-arch images. see recent archiso from git, and http://build.archlinux.org/isos/ 4) i don't know from the top of my head. quite some packages get installed (see archiso in git again), namely the base group + more packages. you could build your own media using less packages. ie only the packages you need + dependencies of aif. Dieter