[arch-general] anyone had problems with archlinux-2008.06-ftp-i686.iso?

[Tomás Acauan Schertel]

Sorry, not the SAME problem..
My just recorded iso doesn't work,...
Sorry again..

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On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 23:58, Tomás Acauan Schertel <tschertel at gmail.com>wrote:

> I had this problem too...
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> On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 22:12, Chris Brannon <cmbrannon at cox.net> wrote:
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>> Hi list,
>> I'm new to Arch.  The other day, I downloaded the ISO mentioned in the
>> subject
>> line.  I remastered the image, because I needed some extra programs.  I'm
>> blind.  I added a screenreader and a text-to-speech engine to the ISO,
>> so that I could have spoken feedback during the install.  I also added
>> alsa-utils, alsa-lib, and a few miscellaneous packages.
>> I burned the CD and booted the system.  Arch started talking to me, and
>> everything seemed ok.
>>
>> After a few minutes, I started noticing strange behavior.  The system
>> froze
>> when I tried to execute a command.
>> For instance, after typing "ps" at the bash prompt, the system locked up.
>> It was unable to load the ps executable or one of its shared libraries
>> from
>> the CD.  Sometimes, it would print the message "input-output error", and
>> return to a working bash prompt.  I could hear my CD-ROM drive clicking
>> whenever
>> it tried to load the executable.  It just sat there for five or more
>> minutes,
>> spinning and clicking.
>> I also noticed that Arch is writing data to its unionfs.  Most of the data
>> seems to be written to /var/log.  Should a live CD be writing to logfiles?
>>
>> My problems could be caused by one of several things.
>> 1. A broken CD-ROM drive.  (I doubt it, because the drive is 3 weeks old).
>> 2. A mistake while remastering the ISO.
>> 3. Some sort of error from the original ISO.
>>
>> Has anyone else had trouble with this image?  If not, then the issue must
>> be caused by my hardware or personal configuration.
>>
>> Regards,
>> -- Chris
>>
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