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Install Gnome

2016-03-05T13:29:11Z

Well, gnome hasn't got a complete package set just yet. It's quite huge, the only complete DE are lxde and xfce4 so far.

mountroot>

2016-03-05T13:27:15Z

Sorry for the late reply. but which iso was this. I've been a bit busy but working on the new iso now.

Cannot create BSD geom (Solved)

2015-04-09T16:52:40Z

I see now. My mistake, for some reason I didn't even think to read immediately after the instruction. Thank you, my issues are resolved.

[Solved] Warning: cannot resolve "freebsd-world>=1:10.1"

2015-03-07T14:37:36Z

No problem. That is OK.
maybe I will use x64_86 version on my laptop later or try to install 64 bit virtualbox on it.
sounds reasoning!!
Regards,
Sushiant

following packages cannot be upgraded due to unresolvable dependencies

2015-03-07T13:22:50Z

Hi,

Thank You for everything you (rianav & Amzo and others) did about that.
OK, so maybe I need to change my virtualbox, because there is no 64-bit option of BSD and Linux and then try to install ArchBSD on it.

Best wishes
Sushiant

[Solved] Pacstrap /mnt base fails due to inability to add GPG keys

2015-03-03T17:56:30Z

Hi and I hope you are fine.
I am installing Arch-BSD i686 on virtual box and now have a question about editing /etc/pacman.conf on ISO.
when I run this comment

 ee /etc/pacman.conf

and go to ee editor, after editing that

 SigLevel = Never

and try to save it. I will get this message
- you can not save changes to /etc/pacman.conf
Can you help me, now what to do?
Thank You
-------------------------
OK, got it.
For anybody else who doesn't know (like me) and wants to know, as Amzo said:
have to copy pacman.conf to another directory like /tmp {read/write} and then edit pacman.conf with ee, vi or nano or what else..

 cp /etc/pacman.conf /tmp

 nano /tmp/pacman.conf

add at the end or edit:

 SigLevel = Never

then:
ctrl+x (to save it),
y
Enter.
and:

 pacstrap -C /tmp/pacman.conf /mnt base

Best Regards

Dual Booting

2015-02-15T20:13:36Z

Ah I think I see what you were saying more clearly when you mentioned a lack of 32bit support. There are unresolved dependencies for programs such as pacman. I can see how that might hinder me. Good thing I decided to run it in virtualbox first because I was on the edge about to delete all my partitions and start over. Still a very interesting project, I will keep a watch on it.

Download ArchBSD

2014-11-27T02:06:38Z

Cool, appreciate the update.

Cheers.

[solved]unable to chroot : shared object "libcrypt.so.5" not found

2014-10-07T21:23:45Z

Okay for /tmp/arch
And yes, libcrypt.so.5 is located in /lib/ but not in /mnt/lib
Actually, I had nothing shown in /mnt/lib in the beginning.
I decided to reboot and I was unable to mount /dev/ada0p3 which is supposed to contains the sys base.
I was suggested to run fsck on it and that's what I did.
After recovering from some errors (?), I saw /mnt/lib populated and, now, I can chroot !
Thanks for your answer

How can I install xorg on archBSD ??

2014-08-14T04:16:39Z

Claud wrote:

Hi,
First please run:
pacman -Sy
in order to update the latest repo data and run
pacman -S xorg xorg-server xorg-xinit
this should take care of startx and stuff needed for running first time Xorg.

If you run

pacman -S xorg

Wont that install all xorg stuff?

If so then it would have installed xorg-server and xorg-xinit also... without having to type it as you did.

Dont mean to thread jack, but I'm having problems starting X, and when I tried ito install all xorg i.e

pacman -S xorg

I got a package conflict

xf86-video-intel and xorg-server are in conflict

Thread about trouble starting X is here
https://bbs.archbsd.net/viewtopic.php?id=163

Hang After Booting...

2014-08-11T05:56:58Z

Which should probably be default for the USB image?

2014-05-05 x86_64 iso

2014-08-10T07:30:25Z

The first is what happens when handpicking the files which end up on the image rather than just installing packages the normal way - ultimately to shave off a few MB in the image. There's no harm but it's certainly an odd sight.
The second one - can't believe we missed that.
Note: The news-entry URL is actually fine as we don't have any entry about that and it's a feature of pacman itself.
The keyring line of course is wrong.
EDIT:
Thanks for reporting. Fixed in the next rebuilds.

Installation in Virtualbox

2014-08-09T05:18:34Z

I assume 'Enable IO APIC' is set to ON by default if you choose the 'FreeBSD' guest when creating a virtual machine in the latest Virtualbox. I installed ArchBSD into Virtualbox on MacOS X, and that was the case. I also enabled 'Nested paging' as I did for my FreeBSD installation after having experimented throughout all possible combinations and measuring performance. 'Nested paging' doesn't do any good for my linux guests though including Archlinux.

Problem with bootloader

2014-07-12T10:46:14Z

I have found a way to install ArchBSD on an MBR system: the solution is to create the UFS parition first, and then the swap parition. This is the scheme I've found in FreeBSD installation guides.

2014-05-05 i686 iso

2014-05-14T13:59:02Z

New iso are going to be a few days longer. I've encountered more issues. When recovering an install in a chroot, it shows the root file system of the CD, and pacman reports / as full. So a rescue script that will create a jail and chroot into it is beign wrote to add to the iso.