[arch-general] New dual install iso -- Where the heck is arch-setup??

David C. Rankin drankinatty at suddenlinkmail.com
Sat Aug 4 13:04:58 EDT 2012


On 08/04/2012 01:20 AM, Jason Ryan wrote:
> On 04/08/12 at 01:17am, David C. Rankin wrote:
>> Guys,
>>
>>   What happened to the arch setup autoinstaller script that guided you though
>> the install process?? It was minimal, and worked very well to guide you through.
>> Even helpful with raid installs after your arrays were assembled and
>> partitioned. Now, unless I'm completely missing something, we a back to a total
>> manual install with archlinux-2012.07.15-netinstall. I've looked at the basic
>> setup wiki and the install guide wiki and I don't see the friendly install tool
>> referenced anywhere. So am I missing it, or are we just back to a manual
>> install? (guessing where packages are /usr/bin, /usr/sbin or /sbin. On
>> archlinux-2012.07.15-netinstall, /usr/sbin is not in the default path, so typing
>> dhcpcd as instructed in the wiki -- does nothing...
>>
>>   I really liked the old arch installer. It was a fairly brain-dead install that
>> nicely walked you though the install process with minimal keystrokes and choices
>> required. Is that installer on the archlinux-2012.07.15-netinstall image? If so
>> where?
>>
>>   (This is an arch client vbox install if that makes any difference...)
>>
> 
> http://www.archlinux.org/news/install-media-20120715-released/
> 

Got,

  Just seems like a waste to throw away all the hard work that went into AIF.
Any particular reason it was ditched, other than it just not being updated to
support the latest gee whiz stuff?

-- 
David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.


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