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dninja

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From: Sheffield, UK

Registered: 2006-04-29

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networkless install gives "not found in sync db" error

I'm trying to install on a laptop which whose network drivers are not in the install kernel and which doesn't have a cd. All files have to be transferred by usb till I can get it up and running and install the drivers.

I got the machine to boot from the network (pxeboot) and got into the install shell without any problems. On another machine I downloaded the current core iso, mounted it and copied all the packages to a usb disk which I then mounted as /src/arch/pkg on the laptop.

When doing step 2 of the install I got an error that it couldn't find /src/arch/pkg/setup so I created that directory, the errors went away but I then didn't get any packages in the package list. I tried mounting the package disk as /src/arch/pkg/setup and then tried again. This time I got a list of packages. I selected them all and went to step 3.

At this point it tries to access the network to refresh the package database, fails and gives me the error:

error: 'acl-2.2.47': not found in sync db

Looking in VT5 I get

error: failed to retrieve file 'current.db.tar.gz' from  : No such file or directory
error: filed to synchronize current: no such file or directory
error: filed to synchronize any databases

Have I done something wrong? Having to create the setup directory feels wrong, I thought I just put the packages in /src/arch/pkg so I'm guessing that that may have something to do with it.

If not, how can I get round this? Can I create a database and drop it on the machine?