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Hello ,
i am trying to install arch linux on my laptop because i got little bit tired of so many unwanted issues with debian.
after making live-usb stick (which i booted from)
-changing locale to DE
-doing cfdisk (deleting one partition)
-activating swap via mkswap /dev/sda2
-mounting /dev/sda5 /mnt
when doing
pacstrap /mnt base i get
error: could not open file: /etc/mtab: No such file or directory
error: could not determine filesystem mount points
error: failed to commit transaction (unexpected error)
Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.
>>Error: Failed to install packages to new root
i see that /etc/fstab is empty . is it because of that?
have also debian sid and windows 7 on this laptop.
please show me the way here.
Last edited by mrkapqa (2015-08-16 18:25:16)
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added /etc/fstab
/dev/sda5 / ext4 defaults,noatime 0 1
/dev/sda6 none swap defaults 0 0
but the error remains then doing
pacstrap /mnt base
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Glancing over what you wrote, you did not format the partitions. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Be … s_and_swap
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Please edit your first post to revise the title to be relevant to the issue you are having.
Also, not to discourage you - but in your other thread you said you were relatively new to linux. If you are new to linux and compiling software in debian has been sufficiently challenging that you want to give up and use something else, then archlinux is a very bad choice: I doubt you would be happy with archlinux at this point.
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Glancing over what you wrote, you did not format the partitions. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Be … s_and_swap
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thanks, this helped me.
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Please edit your first post to revise the title to be relevant to the issue you are having.
Also, not to discourage you - but in your other thread you said you were relatively new to linux. If you are new to linux and compiling software in debian has been sufficiently challenging that you want to give up and use something else, then archlinux is a very bad choice: I doubt you would be happy with archlinux at this point.
actually, i am still using debian, but i want to try out arch linux maybe it is suiting my needs better. yes, i am relativley new to linux, but i like to explore so hopefully arch linux can team up well with me. hope to learn from you all! thanks
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managed to install pacbase-system,
afterwards i did
1,
genfstab -p /mnt >> /mnt/etc/fstab
2.
arch-chroot /mnt
"here it fails: unshare: failed to execute chrrot : Input/output error"
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The wiki says https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Be … ase_system
arch-chroot /mnt /bin/bash
What command exactly did you run?
Last edited by karol (2015-08-16 18:37:04)
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well, actually it seems that it has problems with the actual operating systems that are already installed. i am getting I/O error ; will try tomorrow again and let you know; thanks
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