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Hossein Heydari

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From: Iran

Registered: 2015-12-16

Posts: 33

Problem in mounting partions in /mnt

Hi

I wanna install Arch Linux and I used following commands for mounting :

mount /dev/sda1 /mnt
mkdir /mnt/home
mount /dev/sda2 /mnt/home

and then :

genfstab -U -p /mnt >> /mnt/etc/fstab

but it sais there is no such file (/mnt/etc/fstab) and after I checked /mnt by (ls) command there are no etc,boot,var and etc there is just lost and found folder there I mounted partions without getting error but they didn't mounted correctly.

what should I do ?

Head_on_a_Stick

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From: The Wirral

Registered: 2014-02-20

Posts: 8,778

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Re: Problem in mounting partions in /mnt

Which guide are you following?

You need to use `pacstrap` to install the filesystem package so that an fstab is present for `genfstab` to modify.

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Hossein Heydari

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From: Iran

Registered: 2015-12-16

Posts: 33

Re: Problem in mounting partions in /mnt

I use Arch wiki.

Head_on_a_Stick

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From: The Wirral

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Re: Problem in mounting partions in /mnt

I use Arch wiki.

Read it more carefully then

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Beginners'_guide

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Simone98RC

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From: Reggio Calabria, Italy

Registered: 2015-07-22

Posts: 22

Re: Problem in mounting partions in /mnt

Surely you are newbie in Arch installations... welcome!

1) Have you formatted the partitions? If not, before mount anything, you have to do

mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda1 && mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda2

. I guess you would like Ext4 as filesystem, personally I use Btrfs on a single partition with subvolumes (but's more complex than Ext4).

2) You've forgotten to do the command

pacstrap /mnt base

. It installs a basic system inside the selected partition. Obviously you have to do that after the mount process.

3) After installation is completed you can do without any trouble

genfstab -U -p /mnt >> /mnt/etc/fstab

.

Summarize:

mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda1 && mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda2

mount /dev/sda1 /mnt && mkdir /mnt/home && mount /dev/sda2 /mnt/home

pacstrap /mnt base

And you've not finished yet to configure your system, here you find the following steps: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Be … hange_root