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 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 > > -- > Web: http://www.sff.net/people/N7DR >
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