Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] ArchISO FTP Installer - Testers Needed

2008-04-11 Thread Dale Blount
Sorry for this being 2 weeks late, but better late then never. > **I need feedback on the following regarding ISO bootup** > - Did the grub loader work as expected? System 1: Old Dell PowerEdge 350. Won't even boot the CD. Bios says "Invalid boot device" or similar. System 2: Newer Asus P4 2.8g

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] ArchISO FTP Installer - Testers Needed

2008-03-26 Thread Christos Nouskas
Damir Perisa wrote: > i have a no-optical-drive laptop (non-macs are not able to boot from > firewire cdroms) and usually i prepare a image to put on a > memory-stick to boot from [1]. since this setting (no cdrom) are > getting more common and having a live-linux-system on a usb-key is > getting i

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] ArchISO FTP Installer - Testers Needed

2008-03-26 Thread Aaron Griffin
On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 5:12 PM, Simo Leone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 03:38:01PM +0200, Grigorios Bouzakis wrote: > > > > WOW thanks! > > I had always been wondering how an Archlinux live CD would look and > > function, and now its the time to find out. > > May ask w

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] ArchISO FTP Installer - Testers Needed

2008-03-26 Thread Simo Leone
On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 03:38:01PM +0200, Grigorios Bouzakis wrote: > > WOW thanks! > I had always been wondering how an Archlinux live CD would look and > function, and now its the time to find out. > May ask what are the requirements for it? Especially RAM usage. > I intend to try it at some poi

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] ArchISO FTP Installer - Testers Needed

2008-03-26 Thread Aaron Griffin
On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 12:51 PM, Pierre Schmitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Am Mittwoch, 26. März 2008 18:19:19 schrieb Dan McGee: > > > The kernel would never get loaded if this was a grub issue- I think > > Aaron is right in that we don't have all the necessary drivers in our > > initrd, so t

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] ArchISO FTP Installer - Testers Needed

2008-03-26 Thread Pierre Schmitz
Am Mittwoch, 26. März 2008 18:19:19 schrieb Dan McGee: > The kernel would never get loaded if this was a grub issue- I think > Aaron is right in that we don't have all the necessary drivers in our > initrd, so the driver for his external CD drive wasn't loaded. You are right. I did missed the "ker

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] ArchISO FTP Installer - Testers Needed

2008-03-26 Thread Dan McGee
On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 11:53 AM, Pierre Schmitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Am Mittwoch, 26. März 2008 17:10:04 schrieb Aaron Griffin: > > > > On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 9:27 AM, Rickard Eriksson > > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > First of all I'd like to say nice project. > > > > > > An

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] ArchISO FTP Installer - Testers Needed

2008-03-26 Thread Pierre Schmitz
Am Mittwoch, 26. März 2008 17:10:04 schrieb Aaron Griffin: > On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 9:27 AM, Rickard Eriksson > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > First of all I'd like to say nice project. > > > > And heres my first feedback: > > When I tried booting it up on my LG A1 (No internal CD-Rom) it kern

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] ArchISO FTP Installer - Testers Needed

2008-03-26 Thread Aaron Griffin
On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 9:27 AM, Rickard Eriksson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > First of all I'd like to say nice project. > > And heres my first feedback: > When I tried booting it up on my LG A1 (No internal CD-Rom) it kernel > paniced on me saying: Couldn't find CD-Rom. Ah, interesting. Simo

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] ArchISO FTP Installer - Testers Needed

2008-03-26 Thread Rickard Eriksson
First of all I'd like to say nice project. And heres my first feedback: When I tried booting it up on my LG A1 (No internal CD-Rom) it kernel paniced on me saying: Couldn't find CD-Rom. I'm more than happy to beta testa some more if the next version includes me being able too boot it up :-)

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] ArchISO FTP Installer - Testers Needed

2008-03-26 Thread Grigorios Bouzakis
On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 03:53:52AM -0500, Simo Leone wrote: > Hey everyone, > > I'd like to begin testing some preliminary work with the arch livecd > system. You can find a livecd rigged up to work as an ftp installer at: > http://dev.archlinux.org/~simo/archiso_tests/arch-ftp-live-1206519468.iso

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] ArchISO FTP Installer - Testers Needed

2008-03-26 Thread Damir Perisa
Wednesday 26 March 2008, Simo Leone wrote: | I'd like to begin testing some preliminary work with the arch | livecd system. You can find a livecd rigged up to work as an ftp | installer at: | http://dev.archlinux.org/~simo/archiso_tests/arch-ftp-live-1206519 |468.iso i'll give it a try in qe

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] ArchISO FTP Installer - Testers Needed

2008-03-26 Thread Roman Kyrylych
2008/3/26, Simo Leone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hey everyone, > > I'd like to begin testing some preliminary work with the arch livecd > system. You can find a livecd rigged up to work as an ftp installer at: > http://dev.archlinux.org/~simo/archiso_tests/arch-ftp-live-1206519468.iso I'll be able