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12padams

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Registered: 2013-06-26

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(Solved) Errors after typing pacman -Syu

After making 3 partitions (2G Primary Bootable, 2G Swap, 47G for the 3rd) and typing the following commands:

mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda1
mkswap /dev/sda2
swapon /dev/sda2
mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda3
mount /dev/sda3 /mnt
mkdir /mnt/boot /mnt/var /mnt/home
mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/boot
pacstrap /mnt base base-devel

I then wait for the installation to finish and type

pacman -Syu

At this point I come up with the following issue:

http://i.imgur.com/aH7ECKL.png

As you can see... it doesn't finish installing those things and much later when I try typing

grub-install /dev/sda

It then gives me more errors and doesn't understand the command. I'm stumped!

Anyone able to help?

-- mod note: converted img to url tags.  Trilby --

Last edited by 12padams (2017-01-16 02:47:29)

Trilby

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Re: (Solved) Errors after typing pacman -Syu

Why did you try to run pacman -Syu at all in the iso?  It runs in ram - you filled up your ram and it could not continue.  Follow the installation guide.

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ataraxia

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Re: (Solved) Errors after typing pacman -Syu

When you "pacman -Syu" there, you are trying to upgrade the install environment, not your newly installed system. It runs out of memory and dies. Don't do that. You have no need to do "pacman -Syu" as what you just installed is already up to date.

12padams

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Re: (Solved) Errors after typing pacman -Syu

Oh ok, I followed an online video tutorial, so I don't need to type "pacman -Syu" at all? That's a relief

Thanks for your help

jasonwryan

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Re: (Solved) Errors after typing pacman -Syu

Oh ok, I followed an online video tutorial

This is why you should only ever use the official documentation on the wiki...

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12padams

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Registered: 2013-06-26

Posts: 15

Re: (Solved) Errors after typing pacman -Syu

Oh ok, I followed an online video tutorial

This is why you should only ever use the official documentation on the wiki...

I'm a visual learner, just needed to see the installation in action before following along with the Wiki.  Thanks for your help though, seems like the wiki truely is the bible when it comes to Arch Linux.