On Fri, 2 Apr 2010 20:12:15 +0200 Heiko Baums <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Am Fri, 2 Apr 2010 19:57:10 +0200 > schrieb Dieter Plaetinck <dieter@xxxxxxxxxxxx>: > > > well, if you use the old 2009.8 images which has the old aif, it > > will indeed give problems when you install the latest packages > > (although technically it will mount /mnt/etc, but before it > > mounts /mnt so it gets inaccessible), and this problem exists more > > then since two weeks. > > http://projects.archlinux.org/aif.git/commit/?id=e478d001f43a61ba27650e1229baf0e8850a0835 > > > > *if* this is the problem you're having, > > possible solutions: > > 1) run LC_COLLATE=c /arch/setup > > 2) get a new iso from http://build.archlinux.org/isos/ > > If the old 2009.08 isos don't work correctly anymore Oops. My above information is incorrect, the old installer doesn't work anymore when ran from an iso _built from_ the changed initscripts package. the 2009.08 images (core+netinstall) should still work fine, the issue Fons had must be something else. > and the new 2010.03 are already released on http://build.archlinux.org/isos/, why > aren't they released or linked to on > http://www.archlinux.org/download/ and the mirrors? This is the place > where new users usually look first to get the install images. those are unsupported testing images Dieter