mystified Posted April 19, 2007 Report Share Posted April 19, 2007 I didn't get very far in my install. I selected to just install the base system. The I go to install the packages Then it fails with the following error: error /mnt/var/lib/packman/current/kdb-1,12-1/desc No such fileerror: cannot resolve dependencies for "autoconf" "mawk" is not in the package set Package installion FAILED Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyme Posted April 19, 2007 Report Share Posted April 19, 2007 Sounds like you might have gotten a bad burn or download. Did you check the md5sums and try re-burning at a slower speed? Also, are you doing a CD install or an FTP install? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mystified Posted April 19, 2007 Author Report Share Posted April 19, 2007 CD install. And I can't find an MD5Sum to check against where I downloaded it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted April 19, 2007 Report Share Posted April 19, 2007 1e0e9f3715d3c51129395570e01b9bc2 Archlinux-i686-0.8-Voodoo.base.iso 568fc375b37d8bc6e44c6f518ecd6ab5 Archlinux-i686-0.8-Voodoo.current.iso 4888cbd48150c8654e0f0130c7dd227b Archlinux-i686-0.8-Voodoo.ftp.iso (right from a regular Arch mirror). Seems like a bad burn to me as well. cannot be positive, as I almost always use the ftp.iso for installing. Just do not pick ftp.archlinux.org as the place for your ftp installation, most times it is slow. nluug and several other places should be reasonably fast. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mystified Posted April 21, 2007 Author Report Share Posted April 21, 2007 Ok, instead of starting a new thread I thought I'd go back to this one. I was able to get arch successfuly installed but decided to finish the install from within Gentoo in a chroot environment. Before I can get any farther though I need internest access. Here's the problem: From /etc/rc.conf # Note: to use DHCP, set your interface to be "dhcp" (eth0="dhcp") # lo="lo 127.0.0.1" eth0="dhcp 192.168.0.2 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast xxxxxxxxx" INTERFACES=(lo eth0) error message when restarting the network [root@localhost /]# /etc/rc.d/network restart :: Stopping Network [BUSY] SIOCSIFADDR: No such device dhcp: unknown interface: No such device SIOCSIFNETMASK: No such device SIOCSIFBRDADDR: No such device dhcp: unknown interface: No such device dhcp: unknown interface: No such device This is the output of ifconfig [root@localhost /]# ifconfig Warning: cannot open /proc/net/dev (No such file or directory). Limited output. eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:11:11:4A:F0:F3 inet addr:192.168.1.2 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 Googling has turned up nothing. Edit: got that problem solved from the archlinux irc channel Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mystified Posted April 21, 2007 Author Report Share Posted April 21, 2007 New problem. I'm trying to install xchat. Here's what I get: [root@localhost X11]# pacman -S xchat resolving dependencies... done. looking for inter-conflicts... done. Targets: xchat-2.8.0-1 Total Package Size: 2.16 MB Proceed with installation? [Y/n] y checking package integrity... done. cleaning up... done. (1/1) checking for file conflicts [#####################] 100% error: could not prepare transaction error: failed to commit transaction (not enough space on disk) Here's what I get from df -h /dev/hda8 13G 1.6G 11G 13% /mnt/arch That's 11G free. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted April 21, 2007 Report Share Posted April 21, 2007 Where's the root filesystem mounted at? /mnt/arch is not so natural... Can you post your Arch fstab entries? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mystified Posted April 21, 2007 Author Report Share Posted April 21, 2007 That was done from within Gentoo which is why it's /mnt/arch This is fstab for arch /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 ro,user,noauto,unhide 0 0 /dev/dvd /mnt/dvd udf ro,user,noauto,unhide 0 0 /dev/fd0 /mnt/fd0 vfat user,noauto 0 0 /dev/sda5 swap swap defaults 0 0 /dev/sda8 / reiserfs defaults 0 1 I also tried to boot in it and it failed. There's nothing in the xorg log but when I checked another log it appears that xdm doesn't exist. I tried pacman -S xdm and kdm and it couldn't find either packages. All of KDE is installed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iphitus Posted April 21, 2007 Report Share Posted April 21, 2007 how did booting into it fail? Also, might want to read up the pacman manpage, pacman -Ss is good for searching for stuff. In this case, you would have found xdm is in xorg-xdm. KDM is in one of the kde packages, we have not split out our kde packages like other distros. Also, for future reference, before you chroot into another distro, you need to: mount /dev/ /mnt/arch/dev --bind mount /sys /mnt/arch/sys --bind mount /proc /mnt/arch/proc --bind cp /etc/resolv.conf /mnt/arch/etc If your network is configured on your host distro, it will then work in the chroot without doing anything. James Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mystified Posted April 21, 2007 Author Report Share Posted April 21, 2007 Ok, problems all solved. I talked to iphitus in the irc and we worked it out. I was able to successfully log into arch and everything works so far. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mystified Posted April 22, 2007 Author Report Share Posted April 22, 2007 Ok, my arch comments. The initial install with the cd was very easy. I didn't need any documentation because it was just like installing most distros. To a point. Of course this installation only brings you to runlevel 3 with no X. Here is where I ran into problems trying to find documentation about what to do after this. I needed to know commands. I needed to know what steps I had to take next and I had a hard time finding documentation. And when you google Arch you get very few hits. At least in my experience. So although Arch seems like a nice distro at this point I would say it's biggest failing is good documentation. Maybe I'm too spoiled by Gentoo where there are tons of wikis. Maybe I'm not looking in the right places. But I am going to finish the steps I need to take today to get it all upgraded to testing and I've signed up for the mailing list so I hope I can contribute someway. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted April 22, 2007 Report Share Posted April 22, 2007 (edited) It is true the Arch documentation s far from perfect (especially when you compare with Gentoo). But after installing base, having a working X environment is really extremely easy. Do the following, as root, of course: pacman -S xorg fluxbox hwd xterm hwd -u hwd -x cp /etc/X11/xorg* /etc/X11/xorg.conf After that, simply log in as your preferred user, edit .xinitrc to activate "exec fluxbox", and now a "startx" will bring it up. The default fluxbox menus are nonsensical, but fixing them is easy: pacman -Sy menumaker (as root) mmaker -vf fluxbox (as common user) Googling "arch" is not a terribly good idea, what about using "wiki.archlinux.org" instead? It is not perfect for sure, but most issues are covered there. Edited April 22, 2007 by scarecrow Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mystified Posted April 22, 2007 Author Report Share Posted April 22, 2007 Thanks but I already have X and KDE installed and working and I have kdm starting at boot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iphitus Posted April 23, 2007 Report Share Posted April 23, 2007 so we can mark this thread solved :) I guess we need some sort of post install cheatsheet. Basic pacman commands, and routines.. what else do you think should be added? write up a list of stuff, maybe we can start one up on the arch wiki. James Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mystified Posted April 23, 2007 Author Report Share Posted April 23, 2007 Marked as solved. I'm not sure iphitus. Like I said when I went searching after the base install I had a hard time finding what to do next. Maybe it's scattered around and needs to be in one place? There are a lot of things that I know have to be done after a base install because of Gentoo installs. So I went looking for how to do specific things. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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