Dear all, this is my second arch install this month (archlinux-2013.09.01-dual.iso) on an usb key to get a live Arch. Both installs failed on a vfat formated device, when they succed on ext2. $ pacstrap /mnt base returns lot of these erros: warning: warning given when extracting usr/bin/vgrename (Can't create '/mnt/usr/bin/vgrename') ...... It seems, even in chroot, that I can't write the vfat formated device I would like to use vfat as these keys are aimed to boot Arch from windows machines and share files. I used gdisk and fdisk to partition, then mkfs.vfat to format, on clean usb keys. Is there anything I missed ? Then, there is an issue with package vi: error: could not open file /mnt/var/cache/pacman/pkg/vi-1:050325-3-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz.part: Invalid argument I first # pacman-key --init && pacman-key --populate archlinux and # pacman -Syy The only way to succed the install was : # pacstrap -i /mnt base --ignore vi I must add that earlier installs with earlier iso did not show this issue. Maybe shall I open a bug report, or is this a known issue ? Last, the above command returns : :: vi is in IgnorePkg/IgnoreGroup. Install anyway? [Y/n] It seems weird to me that default is Yes, as I specified --ignore vi. Would' nt it makes more sense to default No ? Regards.
