[arch-releng] 2009.08 alpha images

[Dieter Plaetinck]

On Thu, 09 Jul 2009 20:38:26 +1000
Allan McRae <allan at archlinux.org> wrote:

> Dieter Plaetinck wrote:
> > Hi guys,
> > As you may have read already
> > (http://www.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-releng/2009-July/000549.html )
> > we are working on a new release, which we would like to have out
> > there by froscon. (22 august 2009)
> >
> > You'll find the alpha images here:
> > http://build.archlinux.org/isos/
> > Target audience: interested hackers, eg the people on this list.
> >   
> <snip>
> 
> I took the alpha installers for a spin. I haven't downloaded an iso 
> since 2007 and a bit has changed!  Good work.
> 
> I used archlinux-2009.08-alpha-core-i686.iso in qemu and installed a 
> very minimal system (filesystem, kernel26, initscripts, pacman &
> grub). Had no real issues, although I did nothing fancy...
> 
> A couple of minor suggestions:
> You could use a "clear" on exiting the installer as the prompt was
> still covered in the background colors.
> When I get a message about going back and do rollback (after changing 
> filesystem stuff) and I click "yes", I get sent back to the main menu 
> instead of the hard disk setup menu.
> 
> Allan
> 
> 
> 

Not sure which dialog exactly you're talking about.
There is one that suggests a rollback if something failed during
partition/filesystem processing (that by itself would be bad)
And rolling back is also proposed if you select
 one of partion/autoprepare/configure manually if you have previously
 configured your disks already.

Please report a bug for this, and describe clearly what exactly happens.

The 'clear' at the end is added btw.

Dieter