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https://bbs.archlinux.org – I created a few VMWare virtual arch_64 machines to practice with first (with success) but when I tried to install to a Intel Atom 330 all-in-one board with wi-fi (my first post) or directly wired, certain files continue to have 'bad signatures' during the "pacstrap /mnt base base-devel" portion.I have:  1. Read the Beginner Guide about checking for UEFI and apparently it's not.  2. Tried different mirrors followed with a 'pacman -Syy' and a 'pacman -Sc' in root and in /mnt after arch-chroot -ing there  3. Tried all three partition man (HowTos)

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Submitted by Shoutmeloud on 10/28/2012

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Don't forget that "sudo" essentially means "su do". If you can't get pacman functioning in your chroot, try using the "pacstrap" command (see beginner's guide) but use the argument "pacman" in place of "base" or "base-devel", then chroot. That will reinstall pacman for you.

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Hello everyone,I can't seem to install any packages successfully as I attempt to install Arch, and I've tried all suggested solutions I've come across online.If I run pacstrap /mnt base base-devel, I receive 'signature from XXX is invalid', and nothing is installed.  This is despite already having run pacman-key --init, pacman-key --populate archlinux, and pacman-key

I trying to learn how to install the new arch 2012 disk and have tried several times and always ran into the same problem. I am guessing I did not configure grub correctly.

Sorry for not being clearer....Yes, I chrooted successfully....and did some of the configurations in the Beginner's install guide....got as far as the part where I wanted to install ifplugd, which meant using pacman, which as noted did not work...Up until that point, everything was going OK with install....used pacstrap OK and got to point where in chroot, you are supposed to setup your netwo

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Hi everyone I'm trying to install Arch for 3 days now , partitioning (ok) - connecting to the internet (ok - i configured my wireless and ping google and everything work just fine)but  i can't perform a " pacstrap -i /mnt base base-devel grub2-bios  " it shows the " failed retrieving file 'core.db' from ...

Hi,When I tried to install Arch(archlinux-2012.10.06-dual.iso) on VirtualBox 4.1.4, I meet the problem of "ERROR: /mnt is not a mountpoint!"Because I cannot remember the exact process and cannot find exactly the same instruction I used, the process was a little like below:# fdisk -l# mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda1# lsblk /dev/sda# pacman -Syy# pacman -Syu# pacman base base-devThen the system gave a

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It would be the same as `pacman -Ss base` plus `pacman -Ss base-devel`.  Note "-Ssq" would probably be much more useful in this context.

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2012-11-25T01:38:42Z