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toca180

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Registered: 2011-09-17

Posts: 15

Trying to Install Arch PPC

Hi

I am trying to install Arch Linux PPC from the ISO on their site. I have run into a problem. When it comes to installing the packages I get and error about "key could not be looked up remotely" with different keys mentioned. I have tried changing the SigLevel  to Never in /etc/pacman.conf but this seems to get over written when I start the package install form the installer (/arch/setup). How can I get round this?

Thanks
Robert

dmm

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Registered: 2012-08-29

Posts: 4

Re: Trying to Install Arch PPC

If you add SigLevel = Never

and then run

pacman -Su base -r /mnt

on a different vt the packages installed for me.

The installer replaces /etc/pacman.conf when you tell it to install packages, so manually running pacman is required.

toca180

Member

Registered: 2011-09-17

Posts: 15

Re: Trying to Install Arch PPC

Hi

Thank you for the reply and information. I have gotten further. I am now stuck at installing the boot loader. I get an error that says:

Unable to find OpenFirmware path for boot=/dev/sda2
Please add ofboot=<path> where <path> is the OpenFirmware path to /dev/sda2 to /etc/yaboot.conf

So I have Googled and that ofpath should give me this information. But I then get this error when I run ofpath /dev/sdb2:

Unable to determind controller path!

Am I doing the right thing to find out the OpenFirmware path? Is there anything else I can try?

Thanks
Robert