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ralligood2

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Registered: 2014-11-12

Posts: 15

[SOLVED] archlinux-2014.11.01-dual.iso install

Hey everyone, I've decided to dive in and attempt installing Arch Linux. I consider myself still new to Linux in general, but I am experienced using Linux Mint and Ubuntu and I'm not scared to use the terminal. Anyways please go easy on me when explaining. So it installed fine and the OS did boot up, but during boot I saw some information in which I don't understand. I only have one hard drive in the PC, so I don't understand why It's even showing this: It doesn't effect the OS from booting.

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hwdb.bin does not exist, please run udevadm hwdb --update
error: /dev/sdb: No medium found
error: /dev/sdc: No medium found
error: /dev/sdb: No medium found
error: /dev/sdc: No medium found
/dev/sda2: clean, 35007/1310720 files, 366761/5242000 blocks
[        6.795137] ACPI: [Package] has zero elements (ffff000139a9cec0)
[        8.525537] systemd-fsck[192]: /dev/sda4: clean, 16/18096128 files, 1104605/?
My lsblck info is:
sda      disk
sda1    part
sda2    part /
sda3    part [SWAP]
sda4    part /home

Now, my actual problem i'm having is that when I had the USB to boot from in and went through the process of installing Linux, I had internet connection and it's a wired connection. However, after install and the system boots back up and I ping Google, it comes back as ping: unknown host www.google.com. When I ping 8.8.8.8 I get connect: Network is unreachable. I looking in /etc/hosts and everything looks fine. Please help, not sure what else I could give you to help identify the problem. Again it's a wired connection.

Thanks in advance!

Last edited by ralligood2 (2014-11-14 03:26:10)

Scimmia

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Registered: 2012-09-01

Posts: 11,952

Re: [SOLVED] archlinux-2014.11.01-dual.iso install

You need to configure the network, specifically see https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ne … IP_address

The environment on the install media runs dhcpcd automatically.

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: [SOLVED] archlinux-2014.11.01-dual.iso install

As for 'hwdb.bin does not exist, please run udevadm hwdb --update', see https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=189536

ralligood2

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Registered: 2014-11-12

Posts: 15

Re: [SOLVED] archlinux-2014.11.01-dual.iso install

Scimmia - thanks that worked. What is the command to make it connect automatically?

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: [SOLVED] archlinux-2014.11.01-dual.iso install

Have you read the wiki? If it's a systemd service, starting, stopping, starting automatically at boot etc. works the same as for any other service.

ralligood2

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Registered: 2014-11-12

Posts: 15

Re: [SOLVED] archlinux-2014.11.01-dual.iso install

Archivist - After reading the topic it seems I shouldn't worry about it since they are going to change it to a debug message? Doesn't seem to be effecting anything, just annoying to see as the system boots.

ralligood2

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Registered: 2014-11-12

Posts: 15

Re: [SOLVED] archlinux-2014.11.01-dual.iso install

Karol - I did and some of it is still a bit confusing, but I went back and read it again, now it's finally clicking. I know what happen. Where is said # systemctl enable dhcpcd@interface_name.service I wrote it just as that, not realizing that I need to put my interface_name in as that lol....don't laugh.

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: [SOLVED] archlinux-2014.11.01-dual.iso install

Archivist - After reading the topic it seems I shouldn't worry about it since they are going to change it to a debug message? Doesn't seem to be effecting anything, just annoying to see as the system boots.

Yup, that's right.

If everything works as it should, please remember to mark the thread as solved https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=130309