[arch-general] installation failure
I am getting a failure when attempting to install 64-bit arch as the main OS on my principal desktop system. I am following the instructions at https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Software_RAID_and_LVM, since I have two brand-new 2TB drives that I want to use in RAID1. 1. I have downloaded and burned the current NetInstall image on a CD. 2. Booting from the CD, I execute: /arch/setup 3. I execute: modprobe raid1 4. I execute: modprobe dm-mod 5. I execute: pacman-db-upgrade 6. I execute: pacman -Syy All the above works fine. 7. I execute: pacman -S gdisk At this point I am told that I should upgrade pacman, and am asked if I want to do this. I answer "Y". A bunch of stuff gets download, but eventually I am told that the upgrade cannot be performed. Possibly this is because it's attempting to write to a read-only filesystem -- i.e., the CD drive (I'm guessing wildly that that is the cause). But in any case, I can't get past this point. How do I proceed? Doc Evans -- Web: http://www.sff.net/people/N7DR
Say no to upgrading pacman first. also, SyncFirst is being removed whenever the next pacman comes out https://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/pacman-dev/2012-February/015123.html On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 02:34:20PM -0600, D. R. Evans wrote:
I am getting a failure when attempting to install 64-bit arch as the main OS on my principal desktop system.
I am following the instructions at https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Software_RAID_and_LVM, since I have two brand-new 2TB drives that I want to use in RAID1.
1. I have downloaded and burned the current NetInstall image on a CD. 2. Booting from the CD, I execute: /arch/setup 3. I execute: modprobe raid1 4. I execute: modprobe dm-mod 5. I execute: pacman-db-upgrade 6. I execute: pacman -Syy
All the above works fine.
7. I execute: pacman -S gdisk
At this point I am told that I should upgrade pacman, and am asked if I want to do this. I answer "Y". A bunch of stuff gets download, but eventually I am told that the upgrade cannot be performed.
Possibly this is because it's attempting to write to a read-only filesystem -- i.e., the CD drive (I'm guessing wildly that that is the cause). But in any case, I can't get past this point.
How do I proceed?
Doc Evans
-- Web: http://www.sff.net/people/N7DR
Daniel Wallace said the following at 06/18/2012 02:39 PM :
Say no to upgrading pacman first. also, SyncFirst is being removed whenever the next pacman comes out
Thank you. That worked. Perhaps something should be said about this in the wiki entry? It seems to me that anyone installing on to RAID is going to hit this question, and since the message one receives says that pacman "should" be upgraded, one is unlikely to try to proceed without the upgrade. Doc -- Web: http://www.sff.net/people/N7DR
Can you give the precise error message? Some of the packages (e.g.) filesystem need to be installed with --force, because they overwrite files that were previously automatically generated etc. See the news on the main website for more details. On Mon, 18 Jun 2012, D. R. Evans wrote:
I am getting a failure when attempting to install 64-bit arch as the main OS on my principal desktop system.
I am following the instructions at https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Software_RAID_and_LVM, since I have two brand-new 2TB drives that I want to use in RAID1.
1. I have downloaded and burned the current NetInstall image on a CD. 2. Booting from the CD, I execute: /arch/setup 3. I execute: modprobe raid1 4. I execute: modprobe dm-mod 5. I execute: pacman-db-upgrade 6. I execute: pacman -Syy
All the above works fine.
7. I execute: pacman -S gdisk
At this point I am told that I should upgrade pacman, and am asked if I want to do this. I answer "Y". A bunch of stuff gets download, but eventually I am told that the upgrade cannot be performed.
Possibly this is because it's attempting to write to a read-only filesystem -- i.e., the CD drive (I'm guessing wildly that that is the cause). But in any case, I can't get past this point.
How do I proceed?
Doc Evans
-- Web: http://www.sff.net/people/N7DR
-- Scott Lawrence Linux jagadai 3.4.2-2-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Mon Jun 11 22:27:17 CEST 2012 x86_64 GNU/Linux
On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 02:34:20PM -0600, D. R. Evans wrote:
I am getting a failure when attempting to install 64-bit arch as the main OS on my principal desktop system.
I am following the instructions at https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Software_RAID_and_LVM, since I have two brand-new 2TB drives that I want to use in RAID1.
1. I have downloaded and burned the current NetInstall image on a CD. 2. Booting from the CD, I execute: /arch/setup 3. I execute: modprobe raid1 4. I execute: modprobe dm-mod 5. I execute: pacman-db-upgrade 6. I execute: pacman -Syy
All the above works fine.
7. I execute: pacman -S gdisk
At this point I am told that I should upgrade pacman, and am asked if I want to do this. I answer "Y". A bunch of stuff gets download, but eventually I am told that the upgrade cannot be performed.
Possibly this is because it's attempting to write to a read-only filesystem -- i.e., the CD drive (I'm guessing wildly that that is the cause). But in any case, I can't get past this point.
How do I proceed?
Doc Evans
-- Web: http://www.sff.net/people/N7DR
also after you say no to upgrading pacman first, if you have errors about mtab, locale.sh, /var/run and /var/lock please read the news, there are posts about all 3 of those, also you will have to set up pacman-key and trusted keys, there is another news article about that http://www.archlinux.org/news/filesystem-upgrade-manual-intervention-require... http://www.archlinux.org/news/initscripts-update-manual-intervention-require... http://www.archlinux.org/news/systemd-tools-replaces-udev/ http://www.archlinux.org/news/having-pacman-verify-packages/ http://www.archlinux.org/news/filesystem-upgrade-manual-intervention-require... that should cover it
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D. R. Evans
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Daniel Wallace
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