[arch-general] new netinstall image required ?

[Dieter Plaetinck]

On Fri, 2 Apr 2010 20:12:15 +0200
Heiko Baums <lists at baums-on-web.de> wrote:

> Am Fri, 2 Apr 2010 19:57:10 +0200
> schrieb Dieter Plaetinck <dieter at plaetinck.be>:
> 
> > well, if you use the old 2009.8 images which has the old aif, it
> > will indeed give problems when you install the latest packages
> > (although technically it will mount /mnt/etc, but before it
> > mounts /mnt so it gets inaccessible), and this problem exists more
> > then since two weeks.
> > http://projects.archlinux.org/aif.git/commit/?id=e478d001f43a61ba27650e1229baf0e8850a0835
> > 
> > *if* this is the problem you're having,
> > possible solutions:
> > 1) run LC_COLLATE=c /arch/setup
> > 2) get a new iso from http://build.archlinux.org/isos/
> 
> If the old 2009.08 isos don't work correctly anymore

Oops.  My above information is incorrect, the old
installer doesn't work anymore when ran from an iso _built from_
the changed initscripts package. the 2009.08 images (core+netinstall)
should still work fine, the issue Fons had must be something else.

> and the new 2010.03 are already released on http://build.archlinux.org/isos/, why
> aren't they released or linked to on
> http://www.archlinux.org/download/ and the mirrors? This is the place
> where new users usually look first to get the install images.

those are unsupported testing images
Dieter