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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 file

error: cannot resolve dependencies for "autoconf"

"mawk" is not in the package set

Package installion FAILED

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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.

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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

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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.

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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.

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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

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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.

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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 by scarecrow
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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

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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.

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