Once again confused on arch

[Pretzel]

2 minutes ago, Hamosch said:

 

and yes that was the installation process, it just copied a base installation of arch onto your btrfs partition mounted on /mnt

so now it's on my normal hard drive and not the install drive?

[Pretzel]

1 minute ago, Pretzel said:

so now it's on my normal hard drive and not the install drive?

in other words can i remove the usb stick i installed it from?

[Hamosch]

yes it copied files, but you're not done you can't remove the usb stick. You still need to set up a lot of stuff but you should be ready to arch-chroot into it after  you generate your fstab

 

You should try to follow this guide:

 

You are up to the configuration part:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/beginners'_guide#Configuration

[Pretzel]

1 minute ago, Hamosch said:

yes it copied files, but you're not done you can't remove the usb stick. You still need to set up a lot of stuff but you should be ready to arch-chroot into it after  you generate your fstab

 

You should try to follow this guide:

 

You are up to the configuration part:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/beginners'_guide#Configuration

ok, great, there shouldn't be any things out of the ordinary from here?

[Hamosch]

not really, should be good to follow the guide

[Pretzel]

10 minutes ago, Hamosch said:

not really, should be good to follow the guide

all right, it said "no root directory specified" when i entered the first command in the config part of the guide. and there is still no sda1 for some reason

[Hamosch]

btrfs uses the entire harddrive it seems.

 

you need to run:

 

# genfstab -U /mnt >> /mnt/etc/fstab

then:

# arch-chroot /mnt /bin/bash

 

[Pretzel]

2 minutes ago, Hamosch said:

btrfs uses the entire harddrive it seems.

 

you need to run:

 

# genfstab -U /mnt >> /mnt/etc/fstab

then:

# arch-chroot /mnt /bin/bash

 

ok, thanks

[Sauron]

On 5/22/2016 at 5:27 AM, Pretzel said:

i know i need to create a partition, but doesn't the drive being read only prevent me from doing that?

 

if it's read only you're probably using the wrong drive