On Wed, Apr 07, 2010 at 07:51:54PM +0200, Pierre Schmitz wrote: > On Wed, 07 Apr 2010 12:44:22 -0500, "David C. Rankin" > <drankinatty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > ... It doesn't matter whether you use > > the > > latest install set or the one from 3 'releases' back, after the first > > update, > > you will have the exact same, current Arch Linux we all have. > > It's not entirely true. You always should install using the latest iso and > it is also important to release new isos regularly. Due to our continuous > updates and changes old isos and especially netinstall are broken. For > example you cannot run a netinstall with an old iso (without updating it > first) due to the switch to xz compressed packages. I wonder how this relates to my post of yesterday (which has produced a mysterious silence otherwise...) I really need to get this machine (and three others) working by friday evening. Ciao, -- FA O tu, che porte, correndo si ? E guerra e morte !
