[arch-general] ArcLlinux 2009.02 installation issues

[Ciprian Dorin, Craciun]

On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 12:19 AM, Tom K <tomk at runbox.com> wrote:
> Ciprian Dorin, Craciun wrote:
>>
>>    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.