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fusion809

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Registered: 2015-06-19

Posts: 87

Internet connection

HI, I followed the beginner's guide, but as I thought my net connection was fine at the time I didn't install dialog or any other packages for wifi, after I rebooted and logged in as a root user whenever I run pacman -S I get these sort of errors:

error: failed retrieving file '<packagename>' from <mirrorname> : could not resolve host: <mirrorname>.

which occurs over and over for at least twenty times every time I execute this command. This error also occurs when trying to run pacman -S dialog, hence the most obvious solution to me failed too. Is there a way to correct this problem without doing the whole installation all over again? If relevant I'm doing this on a VirtualBox machine, my host OS (Ubuntu 15.04) has fully functioning internet connection, in fact that is how I am even posting on this forum.

Last edited by fusion809 (2015-06-19 19:45:19)

CodyFagley

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From: Laramie, Wyoming

Registered: 2015-06-18

Posts: 29

Re: Internet connection

You can put your installation boot USB in, navigate the beginner's guide.

start at mounting the partition.  Because the file system is already there, you don't need to partition or format the drive.  Once it is mounted, go into chroot as you did before, then you should have all the files to run "pacman -S dialog"

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fusion809

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Registered: 2015-06-19

Posts: 87

Re: Internet connection

What's the ESSID, Key and Interface? I am trying to copy across the details of my Wifi connection from my Ubuntu OS to this Arch Linux OS and Ubuntu lists a SSID, Mode, Device MAC address and MTU for my network.

Last edited by fusion809 (2015-06-19 20:09:49)

WorMzy

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Re: Internet connection

You don't need to (and probably can't) connect to your wireless connection from inside a guest OS. Your hypervisor is presumably creating a network address translation connection for you, so you probably just need to bring the interface up, and assign it an IP address (using DHCP).

See Networking.

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