[arch-general] arch install issues with 2013.09 iso & vfat device

arnaud gaboury arnaud.gaboury at gmail.com
Tue Sep 17 09:15:15 EDT 2013


On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 8:12 AM, Jakub Klinkovský <kuba.klinkovsky at gmail.com
> wrote:

vfat has a lot of reserved characters:
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filename#Comparison_of_filename_limitations
>
> Note the colon (':') in "vi-1:050325-3-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz.part", don't know
> why
> it couldn't write "/mnt/usr/bin/vgrename".
>
> Regards,
> Jakub Klinkovský (Lahwaacz)
>

I had the same issue with the vi package when installing on ext2.
As for vfat. I have no idea why I can't install Arch on this filesystem.


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