Re: [arch-general] Install wiki - recommendations regarding 'swap' ?

2012-08-04 Thread David C. Rankin
On 08/04/2012 11:11 PM, rafael ff1 wrote: > 2012/8/5 gt : >> On Sat, Aug 04, 2012 at 08:46:05PM -0500, David C. Rankin wrote: >>> All, >>> >>> After installing without AIF, I want to update the install wiki to drop a >>> note >>> about swap. It isn't addressed at all. What is the current Arch >

Re: [arch-general] Install wiki - recommendations regarding 'swap' ?

2012-08-04 Thread rafael ff1
2012/8/5 gt : > On Sat, Aug 04, 2012 at 08:46:05PM -0500, David C. Rankin wrote: >> All, >> >> After installing without AIF, I want to update the install wiki to drop a >> note >> about swap. It isn't addressed at all. What is the current Arch >> recommendation >> regarding swap creation? I.E.:

Re: [arch-general] Install wiki - recommendations regarding 'swap' ?

2012-08-04 Thread gt
On Sat, Aug 04, 2012 at 08:46:05PM -0500, David C. Rankin wrote: > All, > > After installing without AIF, I want to update the install wiki to drop a > note > about swap. It isn't addressed at all. What is the current Arch recommendation > regarding swap creation? I.E.: recommended for systems

Re: [arch-general] [signoff] btrfs-progs

2012-08-04 Thread C Anthony Risinger
On Sat, Aug 4, 2012 at 7:53 AM, Jackson Alley wrote: > > I've rebooted and confirmed the udev rule I found does not resolve the > issue. I don't believe the problem lies with mkinitcpio as I'm not using > a root btrfs system but rather in the init scripts > (https://projects.archlinux.org/initscri

Re: [arch-general] Install wiki - recommendations regarding 'swap' ?

2012-08-04 Thread C Anthony Risinger
On Sat, Aug 4, 2012 at 8:46 PM, David C. Rankin wrote: > All, > > After installing without AIF, I want to update the install wiki to drop a > note > about swap. It isn't addressed at all. What is the current Arch recommendation > regarding swap creation? I.E.: recommended for systems w/less tha

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

2012-08-04 Thread 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 maintai

Re: [arch-general] Install wiki - recommendations regarding 'swap' ?

2012-08-04 Thread Scott Lawrence
On Sat, 4 Aug 2012, David C. Rankin wrote: All, After installing without AIF, I want to update the install wiki to drop a note about swap. It isn't addressed at all. What is the current Arch recommendation regarding swap creation? I.E.: recommended for systems w/less that 1G of RAM, create swa

[arch-general] Install wiki - recommendations regarding 'swap' ?

2012-08-04 Thread David C. Rankin
All, After installing without AIF, I want to update the install wiki to drop a note about swap. It isn't addressed at all. What is the current Arch recommendation regarding swap creation? I.E.: recommended for systems w/less that 1G of RAM, create swap file of what size? (256M?) Even if swap is

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

2012-08-04 Thread David C. Rankin
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

Re: [arch-general] [signoff] btrfs-progs

2012-08-04 Thread Jackson Alley
On 08/04/2012 07:25 PM, Tom Gundersen wrote: > On Sat, Aug 4, 2012 at 2:53 PM, Jackson Alley > wrote: >> I don't believe the problem lies with mkinitcpio as I'm not using >> a root btrfs system but rather in the init scripts >> (https://projects.archlinux.org/initscripts.git/commit/?id=13ca7f028a

Re: [arch-general] [signoff] btrfs-progs

2012-08-04 Thread Tom Gundersen
On Sat, Aug 4, 2012 at 2:53 PM, Jackson Alley wrote: > I don't believe the problem lies with mkinitcpio as I'm not using > a root btrfs system but rather in the init scripts > (https://projects.archlinux.org/initscripts.git/commit/?id=13ca7f028ac775773a6685966d0faeee5cc55a9d). Yeah, this is due t

Re: [arch-general] Makepkg's versioning for git packages

2012-08-04 Thread Menachem Moystoviz
On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 6:58 PM, Florian Pritz wrote: > On 03.08.2012 17:55, Menachem Moystoviz wrote: >> I'll try to patch it tomorrow evening, along with PKGBUILD's manpage >> and the wiki page. > > Wait for the next pacman version because all this VCS code is being > rewritten. Check the pacman-

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

2012-08-04 Thread Jeremiah Dodds
"David C. Rankin" writes: > On 08/04/2012 01:20 AM, Tobias Powalowski wrote: >> Use archboot if you need hand holding. >> >> greetings >> tpowa > > No hand holding needed, just bewildered why Arch would ditch a tool that > worked > perfectly well. Further, the lack of an AIF type tool just make

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

2012-08-04 Thread David C. Rankin
cker > https://bugs.archlinux.org/index.php?project=6 > > It definitly needs a patch for the fact that grub is no longer a > package in the repositories, the iso comming out soon, 20120804 will > have grub2 on it so people with efi should be able to use it. The > partitioning has been l

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

2012-08-04 Thread David C. Rankin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/04/2012 01:20 AM, Tobias Powalowski wrote: > Use archboot if you need hand holding. > > greetings > tpowa No hand holding needed, just bewildered why Arch would ditch a tool that worked perfectly well. Further, the lack of an AIF type tool just

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

2012-08-04 Thread David C. Rankin
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 i

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

2012-08-04 Thread Oon-Ee Ng
On 4 Aug 2012 15:06, "gt" wrote: > > On Sat, Aug 04, 2012 at 01:17:37AM -0500, 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 helpfu

Re: [arch-general] [signoff] btrfs-progs

2012-08-04 Thread Jackson Alley
On 08/03/2012 09:11 PM, C Anthony Risinger wrote: > On Aug 3, 2012 7:56 PM, "Jackson Alley" wrote: >> On 08/03/2012 08:50 PM, C Anthony Risinger wrote: >>> On Aug 3, 2012 5:32 PM, "Jackson Alley" > wrote: On 08/03/2012 06:20 PM, Tom Gundersen wrote: > On Sat, Aug 4, 2012 at 12:04 AM, Jac

[arch-general] [archboot] looking for 2012.08 beta testers

2012-08-04 Thread Herbert Valisik
2012/8/1, Tobias Powalowski : > Hi, > please drop me an answer if you are interest in testing the next > archboot release. > > Thanks > greetings > tpowa > > -- > Tobias Powalowski > Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) > http://www.archlinux.org > tp...@archlinux.org > > > want to to t

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

2012-08-04 Thread gt
On Sat, Aug 04, 2012 at 01:17:37AM -0500, 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