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Kabezon

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Registered: 2008-09-05

Posts: 7

fail to create filesystem and "error: problem setting dbpath"

I'm using the Core CD. I can get up to /arch/setup and the problems begin at the first step: creating partitions. I have my HDD set up like this right now:
sda1 / 10gb
sda2 swap 4gb
sda3 /home 380gb

I obviously don't want to lose my /home partition... so I didn't touch that. I deleted the other 2 partitions and created new ones. Then I went to "write" and then "quit" as told in the official installation guide. Now, when I try to "Select filesystem Mountpoints" everything goes fine until it asks me if "would you like to create a filesystem on /dev/sda2?" I hit yes but then it tells me there was an error doing so :S Any ideas?

I think that when I hit "write" some error must happen because even though I supposedly deleted sda1 and recreated it, Ubuntu is still on it; I can perfectly boot back to it as if nothing had changed... Well, nothing has changed obviosly, that's the problem lol

Also, just out of curiosity, I went into the "Select Packages" menu, and it told me that "error: problem setting dbpath '/mnt//var/lib/pacman' (could not find or read directoy)" :S!

Hope you can help, I'd really appreciate since I truly want to give what seems to be a great distro a try. Thanks in advance, all help is appreciated:)

Kabezon

Member

Registered: 2008-09-05

Posts: 7

Re: fail to create filesystem and "error: problem setting dbpath"

OK, everything is installed... now I just need to get my network working =]

Kabezon

Member

Registered: 2008-09-05

Posts: 7

Re: fail to create filesystem and "error: problem setting dbpath"

I can now ping some sites but for other I get 100% package loss :S and pacman -Syu tells me it can't sync -.-

tigrmesh

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From: Florida, US

Registered: 2007-12-11

Posts: 794

Re: fail to create filesystem and "error: problem setting dbpath"

Try changing your mirror.