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

[Rodrigo Rivas]

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

> On 17.09.13 at  0:06, arnaud gaboury wrote:
> > Dear all,
> >
> > this is my second arch install this month (archlinux-2013.09.01-dual.iso)
> > on an usb key to get a live Arch. Both installs failed on a vfat formated
> > device, when they succed on ext2.
> > $ pacstrap /mnt base returns lot of these erros:
> > warning: warning given when extracting usr/bin/vgrename (Can't create
> > '/mnt/usr/bin/vgrename')
> > ......
> >
> > It seems, even in chroot, that I can't write the vfat formated device
> >
> > I would like to use vfat as these keys are aimed to boot Arch from
> windows
> > machines and share files.
> > I used gdisk and fdisk to partition, then mkfs.vfat to format, on clean
> usb
> > keys.
> > Is there anything I missed ?
> >
> > Then, there is an issue with package vi:
> > error: could not open file
> > /mnt/var/cache/pacman/pkg/vi-1:050325-3-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz.part: Invalid
> > argument
> > I first # pacman-key --init && pacman-key --populate archlinux
> > and # pacman -Syy
> >
> > The only way to succed the install was :
> > # pacstrap -i /mnt base --ignore vi
> >
> > I must add that earlier installs with earlier iso did not show this
> issue.
> > Maybe shall I open a bug report, or is this a known issue ?
> >
> > Last, the above command returns :
> > :: vi is in IgnorePkg/IgnoreGroup. Install anyway? [Y/n]
> >
> > It seems weird to me that default is Yes, as I specified --ignore vi.
> > Would' nt it makes more sense to default No ?
> >
> > Regards.
>
> 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".
>
> Probably because it is a symbolic link, and those are not supported in
vfat. And there are far more important symbolic links out there...