New ArchLabs Beta ISO available for testing

Naltap · April 7, 2020, 9:23pm

Hello Great Team
after one month of test, i have one bug:
with my trackpad sometimes all screens for all desktop are fix. i can do nothing, there are no keyboard response.
just i can poweroff.
my laptop is a teclast f6.
Nonetheless the distribution is very clean and i work everyday with git, freeoffice, gcc without problem.
really nice release.

Thanks

halcek · April 10, 2020, 2:06pm

If the size of the swap partition is entered manually, i.e. what’s automatically allocated (which works fine) gets modified manually, the installation gives an error.

Doesn’t matter if the swap size is edited in megabyte, or gigabyte units.

natemaia · April 10, 2020, 5:11pm

I assume you mean swapfile, we don’t use sizes for partitions.

Is the error an installer message? eg.

Swap size must be 1(M|G) or greater, and can only contain whole numbers

I’ve tried a number of times editing the size, make sure it has M or G at the end to define the size type.

Chris · April 11, 2020, 2:46am

Heya Nate - you have a time line yet for an official release?

Dobbie03 · April 11, 2020, 2:48am

No time line as yet homie. Its the usual, its ready … when its ready
Personally I’d like to release our new website and ISO at the same time.

Chris · April 11, 2020, 2:49am

LOL - sounds like right out of the Book of Debian

Dobbie03 · April 11, 2020, 2:50am

LOL Yes

It’s the easiest way to explain it

subjunkie · April 16, 2020, 4:35pm

@halcek Hi. How did you solve that problem? I have the same issue since 4 days and cant install anything. Any helping thoughts are welcome!

Archlabs beta iso

Yes it is your pic. I have exactly the same error Message Screen on the beta iso.

natemaia · April 17, 2020, 2:58am

Try dropping to shell with Ctrl-z and run the command in question (in this case just try pacman -Syyu), likely some conflicting files during update.

It’s a real toss up between having things on the live system and copying them over then updating vs full pacstrap but I think the latter is the better way in terms of reliability. When I get some free time I’ll look at adding an option to the installer

live usb filesystem copy and update - saves network and faster but less reliable.
pacstrap - slower and uses more network but guarantees latest packages at install and no conflicts.

If you want I made a new build which should work fine

subjunkie · April 17, 2020, 5:03am

Hi. When i try Ctrl-z the error message appears again. I have tried this before with the same result.

AND> Thank you for the new build. i try the new iso out, when i have enough time.
Thank you nate!

subjunkie · April 17, 2020, 5:48am

@natemaia Just a quick feedback for the new beta iso: Works perfect!
I`m back to the game.

Thank you for the new build of the beta iso and thank you that you can do that so quick in your spare time. RESPECT!

Negata · April 25, 2020, 8:42pm

Now running the latest-latest beta, this morning with dwm and now with yaxwm. No problems with the install. At first it was a bit slow, but once the installer was working, it was like a rocket.

Thank you @Dobbie03 @natemaia and the Team!!