Re: [arch-general] Problems with install Iso

2009-08-21 Thread David C. Rankin
On Wednesday 19 August 2009 04:05:25 am richard terry wrote: > Hullo all, > > > I've used arch for many years and always been happy (I actually run it on > 5-6 machines which I maintain ok). > > My laptop got a libreadline file problem after upgrading, so after backing > up I just decided to re

Re: [arch-general] Problems with install Iso

2009-08-19 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Wed, 19 Aug 2009 11:22:40 +0200 Thomas Bächler wrote: > As I said, Dieter will be the most competent to help here You and Gerhard said it all. I only want to add: even though the manual/workaround-method that Thomas explained may work (the mountpoints are prefixed by '/mnt' btw, so '/mnt/bo

Re: [arch-general] Problems with install Iso

2009-08-19 Thread Gerhard Brauer
Am Mittwoch, den 19.08.2009, 19:05 +1000 schrieb richard terry: > with the /arch/setup program I tried auto to do the whole drive (it was a > brand new seagate 500gig HDD) > no action, just sat there. > > I tried using CFDISK > create partitions > then the setting the mount points > didn't recogn

Re: [arch-general] Problems with install Iso

2009-08-19 Thread Thomas Bächler
Thomas Bächler schrieb: As you seem to be good with Linux and Arch, you can try the following: - Boot the Arch install CD, partition everything as you like it and mount it manually before even launching /arch/setup - Skip all "mount partitions" steps in /arch/setup and simply proceed to the pac

Re: [arch-general] Problems with install Iso

2009-08-19 Thread Thomas Bächler
richard terry schrieb: I tried to ask this a couple of days ago and for some reason it ended up as a flame war about chakra between people I don't even know and I'm not sure what triggered it, so I'll try again. Sorry about that, it happens. However, this post has more details about what exact

[arch-general] Problems with install Iso

2009-08-19 Thread richard terry
Hullo all, I tried to ask this a couple of days ago and for some reason it ended up as a flame war about chakra between people I don't even know and I'm not sure what triggered it, so I'll try again. I've used arch for many years and always been happy (I actually run it on 5-6 machines which I ma