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 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 burned the current NetInstall image on a CD.
2. Booting from the CD, I execute: /arch/setup
3. I execute: modprobe raid1
4. I execute: modprobe dm-mod
5. I execute: pacman-db-upgrade
6. I execute: pacman -Syy
All the above works fine.
7. I execute: pacman -S gdisk
At this point I am told that I should upgrade pacman, and am asked if I want
to do this. I answer "Y". A bunch of stuff gets download, but eventually I am
told that the upgrade cannot be performed.
Possibly this is because it's attempting to write to a read-only filesystem --
i.e., the CD drive (I'm guessing wildly that that is the cause). But in any
case, I can't get past this point.
How do I proceed?
Doc Evans
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