Install xorg from Voodoo Beta2 ISO without an internet connection

wickyd · 2007-02-27 20:53:09

I installed Voodoo Beta2 from CD.

I am now trying to install xorg from the CD.

From the Xorg7 wiki page, step 1 is: Make sure pacman is configured and refreshed.

Neither the pacman wiki, nor the pacman man page explain how to add a CD repository.

The 0.7.2 installation guide suggests adding the following to /etc/pacman.conf:

[cd]
Server = file:///mnt/cd/arch/pkg

I changed the code to reflect my mount point, which is /mnt/cdrom:

[cd]
Server = file:///mnt/cdrom/arch/pkg

I mounted the cdrom with:

mount /mnt/cdrom

I browsed the pkg directory on the cdrom with:

ls /mnt/cdrom/arch/pkg/
Display all 564 possibilities? (y or n)

I tried to sync and refresh the package list with:

pacman -Sy

I encountered this problem:

error: could not open sync database: cd
       have you used --refresh yet?

I issued this command:

pacman -S xorg

and was faced with the same result.

Where am I going wrong?

Thank you.

wickyd

tpowa · 2007-02-27 21:07:34

there is no cd.db.tar.gz in this directory, change [cd] to [current] and it will work

wickyd · 2007-02-27 21:18:13

I commented out the [cd] section and added Server = file:///mnt/cdrom/arch/pkg to [current].

Now the error is:

Failed to synchronize extra
error: could not open sync database: extra
       have you used -- refresh yet?

I added Server = file:///mnt/cdrom/arch/pkg to [extra], but that did not work.

wickyd · 2007-02-27 21:35:56

Thank you for the help.

All I needed to do was comment out [extra] completely in /etc/pacman.conf and I also commented out [current] Include = /etc/pacman.d/current.

Xorg is busy installing.

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