[arch-general] 2008.03 TEST ISOs released

[Tobias Powalowski]

Hi
i just placed the new "Core Dump" TEST ISO
to the mirrors eg:
ftp://ftp.archlinux.org/other/rc-iso/2008.03/

some days testing should be enough, 
I tested them in kvm-qemu and didn't find an issue.

ATTENTION:
This ISO contains packages that are in testing repository.
So don't be suprised by getting package is newer then repository on first 
pacman -Syu.
Those errors will be gone when we moved in the packages, which will happen 
soon.

Changelog:

GENERAL:
- kernel 2.6.24.3 usage
- pacman 3.1.3 usage
- RAM usage has been revisited, these are the new recommendations:
     * FTP ISO, CORE ISO: arch boot image
       160 MB RAM x86_64/i686 (all packages selected, with swap partition)
     * CORE ISO: lowmem boot image
       64 MB RAM x86_64/i686 (all packages selected, with swap partition)

FIXES:
- fixed intel wireless automatic module loading (arch boot image)
- fixed auto prepare of harddisk (lowmem boot image)
- added more checks and improvements to autoprepare of harddisk
- added missing netfilter modules and some wireless addon modules
- added dmraid and linux-atm to install environment
- added gpt support to grub
- added tiacx module and firmware files to install environment
- added parted to install environment
- updated ftp mirrors to latest status

references to bug reports:
- http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/4762
- http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/5825
- http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/7975
- http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/8422
- http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/8431
- http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/8435
- http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/8561
- http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/8616
- http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/8638
- http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/8699
- http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/8835
- http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/8852
- http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/8886
- http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/8898
- http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/8952
- http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/9374
- http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/9436
- http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/9452
- http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/9494
- http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/9560
- http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/9697
- http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/9734
- http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/9864
- http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/9865

As usual check md5sum before using the images and also be aware of the new
RAM recommendations the images have.

Have fun
greetings
tpowa
-- 
Tobias Powalowski
Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa)
http://www.archlinux.org
tpowa at archlinux.org
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