On Fri, 2 Apr 2010 18:38:34 +0200 fons@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > Hello all, > > I wanted to do a new install today, using netinstall > on an USB stick which has worked at least 5 times > before, the last time less than two weeks ago. > > Things failed in the 'Configure System' phase, seems > I didn't have an /etc under /mnt (and yes I did have > a '/' partition and it was mounted on /mnt !). > > Do I need a new /arch/setup ? > > Ciao, > well, if you use the old 2009.8 images which has the old aif, it will indeed give problems when you install the latest packages (although technically it will mount /mnt/etc, but before it mounts /mnt so it gets inaccessible), and this problem exists more then since two weeks. http://projects.archlinux.org/aif.git/commit/?id=e478d001f43a61ba27650e1229baf0e8850a0835 *if* this is the problem you're having, possible solutions: 1) run LC_COLLATE=c /arch/setup 2) get a new iso from http://build.archlinux.org/isos/ Dieter
