Although life has been keeping me busy, i worked hard on finishing the Archie installer – basically i recoded it from scratch… i used most of the inner functions, but the layout and gui functions were completely recoded. so, here are some screenshots :
its 99% complete – some minor tweaks here and there are left, but nothing major. i’m pretty much satisfied with it 
i also tested it under qemu and except for one problem (setting the appropriate vga=xxx parameter for bootloader) it works flawlessly. so…
im still waiting for iphitus (James) to finish up the squashfs-lzma patch and put it into the ‘beyond’ kernel so we can release Archie 0.6 already… i just hope it won’t take TOO long…
Fantastic !
The screenshots are awesome !
If I understood correctly, Archie will install a full arch system based on xfce / openbox ?
Is it thinkable to add an gnome/kde installation option ? and grab it from internet ?
I stay tuned
It will install whatever iso flavor you will use – there are going to be 4 flavors :
xfce, openbox, kde, e17 – which ever you will use, thats the one which will be installed
I can’t wait your second baby !
What about translation of this ? (I may translate it to french…)
It should be easy enough to translate – all strings are in XML file, so if you wish to translate to French, you’re more than welcome
atm, to use the installer in a different language (once other XML translations will be available) the installer needs to be executed via :
export LANG=fr_FR.utf8 archie-installerto use Frence for example…
I might add a “language selection” later on.
Great that you used XML files.
I am already ready to do a translations of files, you have my e-mail.
It won’t be hard to add a language selection on
Any new of iphitus ?
sure, i’ll send you the xml later today
no news yet from iphitus. he must be working on the rest of the beyond patches…
\o/ Archie beta is out ?
Still waiting for translation
Hope your whole family is going well.
Greetings.
Somehow i missed the point. Probably lost in translation
Anyway … nice blog to visit.
cheers, Atrocity
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