On 17.09.13 at 0:06, arnaud gaboury wrote: > 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. vfat has a lot of reserved characters: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filename#Comparison_of_filename_limitations Note the colon (':') in "vi-1:050325-3-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz.part", don't know why it couldn't write "/mnt/usr/bin/vgrename". Regards, Jakub Klinkovský (Lahwaacz)
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