Arch Linux

dwagon64

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Registered: 2026-02-18

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Trouble installing Arch and haven't found any past topics that help

Hello, I'm new to Arch coming from Mint Linux and Windows and I've been following the installation guide for a new setup deleting a previous Windows installation and partitions but I got stuck on step 2.2 running the command "pacstrap -K /mnt base linux linux-firmware". I get stuck on "zstd-compressed initcpio image: '/boot/initramfs-linux.img' where it just errors out with the lines "WARNING: errors were encountered during build. The image may not be complete.
error: command failed to execute correctly"
And I can't continue with the installation. I tried updating the keyring since I saw that might be a problem but that didn't work and I also tried to delete all my partitions and restart the process again but that results in the same and I'm not sure what to do next. Any help will be appreciated thank you!

cryptearth

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Re: Trouble installing Arch and haven't found any past topics that help

if /boot is its own partition it maybe too small

seth

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Re: Trouble installing Arch and haven't found any past topics that help

also tried to delete all my partitions

And I can't continue with the installation.

"Why"?
Please don't paraphrase, https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=57855

You'll have to provide details on the error.

pacstrap -K /mnt base linux linux-firmware |& tee /tmp/wtf.txt
/tmp/wtf.txt | curl -F 'file=@-' 0x0.st # this shall give you a url, please post that

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dwagon64

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Registered: 2026-02-18

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Re: Trouble installing Arch and haven't found any past topics that help

I couldn't get it to make a url to share the errors, I get error 451 Unavailable For Legal Reasons, but I do get same error and I don't think it's a size issue since I only have two partitions, one for 464.8G as the primary partition and 1G for the UEFI partition and they're both freshly partitioned, formatted and mounted unless there's a way for me to check since I don't know what command would let me check it.
Here's a link to a picture I took of the output of the install since I couldn't get a url of the print out: https://imgur.com/a/rIwpb2P

seth

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Re: Trouble installing Arch and haven't found any past topics that help

error 451 Unavailable For Legal Reasons

0x0.st is blocked in some dictatorships, sorry.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/List_o … ted_client
You can try termbin or c-net instead.

But this is just https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=310236 and the "error" there isn't fatal.
How "can't continue with the installation" ?

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dwagon64

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Registered: 2026-02-18

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Re: Trouble installing Arch and haven't found any past topics that help

Yesterday I couldn't continue since I couldn't do the fstab step for some reason but now it's letting me continue with the process so I thought the installation was failing because of that error but I guess not anymore. Thanks for your help and hopefully it'll continue without issue!

SunnyWizard

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Registered: 2026-03-11

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Re: Trouble installing Arch and haven't found any past topics that help

error 451 Unavailable For Legal Reasons

0x0.st is blocked in some dictatorships, sorry.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/List_o … ted_client
You can try termbin or c-net instead.

But this is just https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=310236 and the "error" there isn't fatal.
How "can't continue with the installation" ?

Good day.

Could you please tell me where I can find more detailed information about this part of the setup, or a guide showing how to replace requests to 0x0.st with the indicated paste.c-net.org or termbin.com?
I encountered the same error as the thread author, and unfortunately I haven't been able to resolve it so far.

SunnyWizard

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Re: Trouble installing Arch and haven't found any past topics that help

error 451 Unavailable For Legal Reasons

0x0.st is blocked in some dictatorships, sorry.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/List_o … ted_client
You can try termbin or c-net instead.

But this is just https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=310236 and the "error" there isn't fatal.
How "can't continue with the installation" ?

Good day.

Could you please tell me where I can find more detailed information about this part of the setup, or a guide showing how to replace requests to 0x0.st with the indicated paste.c-net.org or termbin.com?
I encountered the same error as the thread author, and unfortunately I haven't been able to resolve it so far.

Oh! It seems I misunderstood the previous messages. I apologize — my English is very poor. You only mentioned 0x0.st as a place to upload the install log for troubleshooting. I understand now. If you don’t mind, I’ll try your suggestion later and then ask for more specific help. Thank you in advance for your patience with a beginner.

vbezhenar

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Re: Trouble installing Arch and haven't found any past topics that help

It is not error. You can continue with your installation. Default pacstrap builds initramfs using systemd. And that build requires vconsole.conf file to be present, but pacstrap does not create it, so mkinitcpio issues that "error" which is really warning.