- During the weekend of 10th and 11th of October there is going to be an online Arch Linux conference. The details are currently being worked on, but the Call for Participation has been published and people can submit their talk ideas until the 18th of September.
- Live Arch Linux dvd with rescapp installed This live dvd, is a system rescue dvd based on Arch Linux, with the main tool being Rescapp, which is used to regain access to linux systems that have become non-bootable. It can also regain access to Windows based computers that have had their passwords forgotten.
- An Arch Linux CD/USB can be used to install Arch onto the removable medium, via booting the CD/USB and following the installation guide. If booting from a Live USB, the installation cannot be made to the same removable medium you are booting from.
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cwjiof wrote:I noticed the menu.lst on my USB drive, it has:
kernel /boot/vmlinuz26 lang=en locale=en_US.UTF-8 archisolabel=ARCHISO_OINGAE2I ramdisk_size=75%
The Linux kernel, initramfs and squashfs files for the live system are downloaded from an Arch Linux mirror. The integrity of all downloaded files is verified with cryptographic signatures. To use netboot, the following requirements must be met: Wired (ethernet) internet connection with DHCP autoconfiguration. Arch Linux should run on any x8664 -compatible machine with a minimum of 512 MiB RAM, though more memory is needed to boot the live system for installation. A A basic installation should take less than 2 GiB of disk space.
I had thought it's a bug, but when I changed the default archisolabel=ARCHISO_OINGAE2I command line option to archisolabel=abcd (where abcd is my USB drive label), it works!
We should include that in our documentation, as it seems rather common that people remaster their USB images instead of dd'ing them (judging from the number of reports about this).
Some clarification: This was done so archiso wouldn't mount every single filesystem to look for the right image. Also, we are more flexible with respect to scan times on USB busses: We are able to check once a second if the archiso-device appeared, so if it takes 2 seconds, we can start booting after 2 seconds, and if it happens after 20 seconds, we won't abort before that. I sincerely hope that all reports of failures were due to people remastering the images and not setting the label in menu.lst properly.
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References:
http://projects.archlinux.org/?p=archis … 995f33820e
http://projects.archlinux.org/?p=archis … c8274578b0