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dmm

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Registered: 2012-08-29

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[ArchPPC] Installation on a 2005 eMac, ext3 problems

I'm currently installing on a 2005 eMac. After selecting my partitions and telling the installer the partitions to use, it failed mounting the root. It gave this error:

mount: unknown filesystem type 'ext3'

And sure enough if I go to a terminal and run the command:

mount /dev/sda4 /mnt/

I get the same error. My root partition has an ext3 fs. To work around this I used the command:

mount -t ext4 /dev/sda4 /mnt/

The ext4 driver can mount ext2/3.

I'll keep this thread updated with my experiences.

EDIT:

While I was installing I got a bunch of unknown key errors? So I restarted to try again. The mount problem didn't show up this time.

Last edited by dmm (2012-08-30 00:09:53)

dmm

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Registered: 2012-08-29

Posts: 4

Re: [ArchPPC] Installation on a 2005 eMac, ext3 problems

Also the link to the ArchPPC netinstall image gave me a 404.

The image link is: http://www.archlinuxppc.org/iso/2012.05 … so.torrent

The page that links to it is: http://www.archlinuxppc.org/download/

I had to download the image from the Finnish mirror (I'm in the US).

dmm

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Registered: 2012-08-29

Posts: 4

Re: [ArchPPC] Installation on a 2005 eMac, ext3 problems

I'm getting a message like:

error: wpa_supplicant: key "D9DE387B36625FF" is unknown
error: key "D9DE387B36625FF" could not be looked up remotely

for all of the packages the installer tries to install.

EDIT:

From searching around (I don't know anything about pacman so don't blindly copy this) I added this to /etc/pacman.conf:

[options]
SigLevel = Never TrustAll

and manually running this on tty2

pacman -Su base -r /mnt

The packages seemed to install.

Last edited by dmm (2012-08-30 00:47:26)