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#1 2009-06-19 08:58:08

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Need help installing

Hi! I'm a new Arch user! I installed Arch 2009.2 after everything was done, grub was installed I rebooted. Logged in as root. Then I tried to adduser...it asked for username..etc..etc..But at the end it says can't lock password file, user not created. then I tried to backup my pacman mirrorlist, it says can't copy from read-only file. I'm now on Fedora Live CD and in need of fast help!
thnx


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#2 2009-06-19 09:00:06

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Re: Need help installing

oh I tried chmoding but it just says changing permission of read-only file, but when i do ls -l it just shows the file is still read-only. Have I done some blunder while installing? i dnt think so since the install went smoothly and I followed the official guide.


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#3 2009-06-19 09:23:43

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Re: Need help installing

You have write access to the system right? /etc/passwd is 640 here.

cat /etc/mtab

should tell you. If not, do

mount -o remount,rw /

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#4 2009-06-19 10:05:00

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Re: Need help installing

So  after remounting I'll be able to change permission and add user?

Thnx


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