Arch Linux

Roberth

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From: The Pale Blue Dot

Registered: 2007-01-12

Posts: 894

Cannot install Arch

Hello, after clearing out all the partitions on my harddrive today, I installed windows XP pro as usuall, and when I installed arch, everything went fine until I was going to configure the arch, Neither rc.conf or any other files existed on the file system, and vim stated the /etc didn't exist either.

What is the issue?

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dyscoria

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Registered: 2008-01-10

Posts: 1,007

Re: Cannot install Arch

I've seen this problem stated a few times, but i'm not entirely sure if anyone ever confirmed what the real cause was. The usual advice is to redownload the ISO and burn at slowest speed. I think ftp install on older ISO's also had this problem.

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TylerMD

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Registered: 2008-05-07

Posts: 6

Re: Cannot install Arch

Hi,

I confirm I'm also having this problem. Hope to find a solution soon,

TylerMD

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Registered: 2008-05-07

Posts: 6

Re: Cannot install Arch

Forgot to mention, this happened with version i686-2007.08-2.ftp.iso

RobbeR49

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From: Columbus, OH

Registered: 2006-01-17

Posts: 178

Re: Cannot install Arch

This happened to me not too long ago, you should search the forums for the latest beta isos, they should work.

I think what is happening is that there is some kind of file conflict when pacman is installing your initial set of packages, so nothing really gets installed at all. Because of the ncurses layout of the installer it's sometimes hard to catch the errors.

Not really too much of a surprise given the age of the isos and all the changes in the repos that have undoubtedly occured since then. But new isos should be coming soon, I believe when the 2.6.25 kernel hits [core]

ibendiben

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Registered: 2007-10-10

Posts: 519

Re: Cannot install Arch

Try these:
ISO 2008.04-RC
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=47133
ISO 2008.03-03
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=45897

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TylerMD

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Registered: 2008-05-07

Posts: 6

Re: Cannot install Arch

Hi,

Finally it worked with the i686-2007.08-2.core.iso. I performed a CD-ROM install instead of ftp. I'm updating the base system now, hope I like this new distro .

thanks!

ibendiben

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Registered: 2007-10-10

Posts: 519

Re: Cannot install Arch

Good to hear you got it working! If Arch's philosophy appeals to you sure you'll like it In the beginning it will be a lot of reading, and learning and failing maybe... but once you get accustomed to the configuration files, man-pages, wiki-pages and console toolbox... it's all there for you, and you can make just about anything you want out of it. >>>pacman -S "Let's get it on!!!"

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