Re: [arch-general] installation failure

2012-06-19 Thread D. R. Evans
Daniel Wallace said the following at 06/18/2012 02:39 PM : Say no to upgrading pacman first. also, SyncFirst is being removed whenever the next pacman comes out Thank you. That worked. Perhaps something should be said about this in the wiki entry? It seems to me that anyone installing on to

[arch-general] installation failure

2012-06-18 Thread D. R. Evans
I am getting a failure when attempting to install 64-bit arch as the main OS on my principal desktop system. I am following the instructions at https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Software_RAID_and_LVM, since I have two brand-new 2TB drives that I want to use in RAID1. 1. I have downloaded and

Re: [arch-general] installation failure

2012-06-18 Thread Scott Lawrence
Can you give the precise error message? Some of the packages (e.g.) filesystem need to be installed with --force, because they overwrite files that were previously automatically generated etc. See the news on the main website for more details. On Mon, 18 Jun 2012, D. R. Evans wrote: I am

Re: [arch-general] installation failure

2012-06-18 Thread Daniel Wallace
Say no to upgrading pacman first. also, SyncFirst is being removed whenever the next pacman comes out https://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/pacman-dev/2012-February/015123.html On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 02:34:20PM -0600, D. R. Evans wrote: I am getting a failure when attempting to install

Re: [arch-general] installation failure

2012-06-18 Thread Daniel Wallace
On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 02:34:20PM -0600, D. R. Evans wrote: I am getting a failure when attempting to install 64-bit arch as the main OS on my principal desktop system. I am following the instructions at https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Software_RAID_and_LVM, since I have two