[arch-general] installation failure

[Scott Lawrence]

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
>
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> Web:  http://www.sff.net/people/N7DR
>
>

-- 
Scott Lawrence

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