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Hello and have a good day to all,
I have been using Arch for quite some times, and I'm somewhat familiar with Arch installation process too - but that's with Arch 2009 and older versions.
However, yesterday, when I need to install a new machine with Arch i686, I booted from the CD, did partitioning... correctly. But when it came to choosing mount points and filesystem, I saw a strange partitioning as below :
(FYI, I partitioned my harddisk as sda1 (primary, 15GB for /, ext4), sda5 (logical, 1G for swap), sda6 (logical, 100+ GB for /home, ext4))
/dev/sda -> no fs
/dev/sda1 -> no fs
/dev/sda5 -> no fs
/dev/sda6 -> no fs
This may not be exact, but somehow like that, the problem is I don't know what to do or define the fs for /dev/sda cause it will be applied for the whole HD as I presume. In older versions of Arch, I don't see such issue cause only sda1, sda5, sda6 showed up and I chose /, swap and /home for each partitions separately. But if I don't choose anything for /dev/sda and just go ahead with sda1, sda5 and sda6, some error messages pops up telling me that I need to do something with /dev/sda as well (I'm not in that machine right now so I can't remember correcly, sorry)
Please help me with this case, thank you very much in advance
Cheers
Last edited by Himari (2010-07-06 02:25:53)
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It would be helpful if you could somehow post that error It seems like most errors with the install process let you ignore them if you wish.
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I just tested on a virtual machine, the error message, the error is :
"process_filesystem error
Error creating
file system jfs on
/dev/sda1"
In fact, it pops up for whatever filesystem that I selected (ext4, ext3, xfs)
Could it be that my .iso is faulty and I need to download a new one?
Otherwise, my problem is, in older versions, it never showed anything about the whole disk (/dev/sda) like this 2010 version, only sda1, sda5, sda6 and I just go ahead with each of them. This time, if I choose /dev/sda to select a fs, then I don't know which mountpoint should I define for the whole disk.
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You can ignore the entire disk being listed (/dev/sda). It appears for me too, and I just ignore it.
As for the jfs error, that could be a jfs problem, a disk problem, or a multitude of other problems. Because I am not sure exactly about that part, I probably won't be of use. But I'll keep looking!
EDIT: Do you mean you were trying to format a filesystem onto /dev/sda?
Last edited by cesura (2010-07-02 03:54:07)
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Thanks you for your kind response, itsbrad21
I will download a new .iso file to see if there's any difference. The one that I'm using is the dual i686+x86_64 .iso, I will get an i686 alone to see if it works and get back here.
As for the /dev/sda, it's just I don't know what to do with it as I have no experience with this in the older releases, I will take your advice and ignore it.
Cheers
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No problem
To elaborate more, /dev/sda simple represents the disk as a whole, and something such as /dev/sda1 is an actual partition that you can create a filesystem on. If you wanted to assign a partition to use the whole disk, the label of that partition would be /dev/sda1. Think of it as "1st partition on device /dev/sda".
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For some weird reasons, Arch 2010 is stuck at the mountpoints step and didn't let me continue, I downloaded a 2009 release and it worked fine, since I can just "pacman -Syu" so I guess 2009 or 2010 doesn't really matter to me
Thanks for all the helps
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