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

[Jason Ryan]

On 04/08/12 at 08:43pm, David C. Rankin wrote:
> On 08/04/2012 10:49 AM, Oon-Ee Ng wrote:
> >> David, you are fairly active on the mailing lists, and it's amusing that
> >> > you totally missed the discussions related to the removal of AIF a few
> >> > weeks ago.
> > More to the point, as a maintainer of a fairly complicated set of packages,
> > he should be following important announcements rather than shooting of
> > emails when he personally encounters the changes. Or at least looking at
> > the front pages
> > 
> 
> Both points well taken. I do follow - to the greatest extent possible - the
> changes with arch. Even scanning the dev list, I completely glossed over the AIF
> removal, thus the email. After having completed the install without it, I can
> say, AIF is sorely missed.
> 
> The install guide that is currently in the wiki, does a good job, but it is
> extremely terse. The install can be done with the install wiki, but it takes an
> additional level of effort and Linux understanding than with AIF (and that had
> no training wheels). The current install is silent on 'swap'. I wanted a 500M
> swap, so I created on with cfdisk during install and added it to fstab. Simple
> issue, but it was things like that that AIF did that really helped cut down on
> the time/thought required for install.
> 

I fail to see how cutting down the thought required for an install can be
considered a deficiency. It just sets low expectations about the thought
required to run the distro subsequently…

/J

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