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donniezazen

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[SOLVED]New Arch Linux ISO Installation Help.

Hi All,

I am trying to install Arch Linux using new ISO. For some reason I am unable to log into Arch Forums on Windows and I am writing this on my tablet. I will add more info (proper quote, etc.) as soon as I am able to log in a laptop browser. That being said I am trying to install Arch using new ISO. Here is what I did.

Partition using cfdisk /, /home , /swap and /boot.
Format all these in ext4.
Create folders in mnt - root, home, swap, boot.
mount partitions in mnt folders.
Pacstrap /mnt base base-devel

Error
ERROR: /mnt is not a mount point!

I install in /mnt/root which probably doesnt touch other partitions like home boot and swap.

I follow other steps on installation wiki and reboot takes me back to windows.

What am I doing wrong?

Thanks.

Last edited by donniezazen (2012-07-24 22:49:01)

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2ManyDogs

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Re: [SOLVED]New Arch Linux ISO Installation Help.

Partition using cfdisk /, /home , /swap and /boot.
Format all these in ext4.
Create folders in mnt - root, home, swap, boot.

You don't need a root folder. /mnt is the root mount point. Before you mount boot and home:

mount /dev/sdax /mnt

where "x" is the number of your /root partition.

then

mkdir /mnt/boot
mount /dev/sdax /mnt/boot
mkdir /mnt/home
mount /dev/sdax /mnt/home

(replace "x" in all the /dev/sdax with the correct partitions.)

Error
ERROR: /mnt is not a mount point!

you should have stopped here and posted or tried to figure out what you did wrong.

The edited Beginner's Guide is very clear about this. You should read it.

Last edited by 2ManyDogs (2012-07-24 20:09:24)

DSpider

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Re: [SOLVED]New Arch Linux ISO Installation Help.

If rebooting takes you back to Windows, it means that you didn't install a bootloader; else the bootloader's menu would've shown up. I think you just used pacstrap to install the grub-bios or syslinux package, but didn't ran any of their commands to install one of them.

This step isn't complete without this step (which comes after the "arch-chroot /mnt" part).

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donniezazen

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Re: [SOLVED]New Arch Linux ISO Installation Help.

Thanks 2ManyDogs and DSpider.

Wiki wasn't updated back then and I was throwing arrow in a wrong direction. I used updated wiki and everything is fine.

I am a little confused about CONSOLEFONTS AND FONTMAP in vconsole.conf. What console fonts and font map should I be using for a regular English US Keyboard?

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2ManyDogs

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Re: [SOLVED]New Arch Linux ISO Installation Help.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Be … and_keymap

KEYMAP
The available keymaps are in /usr/share/kbd/keymaps. Please note that this setting is only valid for your TTYs, not any graphical window managers or X.
FONT
Available alternate console fonts reside in /usr/share/kbd/consolefonts/. The default (blank) is safe.
FONT_MAP
Defines the console map to load with the setfont program at boot. Possible maps are found in /usr/share/kbd/consoletrans, if needed. The default (blank) is safe.
Example:

KEYMAP=us
FONT=lat9w-16
FONT_MAP=8859-1_to_uni

so this works for US:

KEYMAP=us
FONT=
FONT_MAP=

If you have an existing Arch install, you can always look in rc.conf and see how it's defined there.

Last edited by 2ManyDogs (2012-07-24 22:42:11)

donniezazen

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Re: [SOLVED]New Arch Linux ISO Installation Help.

Thanks.

Marking it solved.

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silentsnake

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Re: [SOLVED]New Arch Linux ISO Installation Help.

Maybe something else to add:

Don't make ext4 (or any other general purpose filesystem) on your swap partition. Use mkswap /dev/sdx to create the swap filesystem, and swapon /dev/sdx to use it, if you will need it during the installation. (Not likely.)

donniezazen

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Re: [SOLVED]New Arch Linux ISO Installation Help.

Yep, Silentsnake. OP is grossly wrong. I followed the latest wiki and everything worked fine.

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