#[Solved] pacstrap can't install packages

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past dawn
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The command looks right. Im not sure why its complaining about read only... flonk

past dawn
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Not sure why the additional drives are mounted /mnt/mnt/sdb

past dawn
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i have games on it

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and some bash scripts

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so in system it will be /mnt/sdb

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You could mount em later that eliminates a potential issue, but Im not sure thats why its complaining.

past dawn
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i just umounted them and there are still that error

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Try umounting then and retry. Otherwise the rest looks good.

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Dang.

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I have installed arch only a handfull of times, Im not exactly the most qualified to debug installation issues beside the obvious stuff. toks

past dawn
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thats strange

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wait

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past dawn
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isnt pacstrap /mnt like pacman to /mnt

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Not only are you inside the iso but you never wanna run -Sy, always -Syu, partial upgrades arent supported, you risk breaking your system.

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Did you manage to pacstrap?

past dawn
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Try pacman -Syyu

past dawn
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same

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But... if you havent installed the base system with pactrap its a bit odd to try and run pacman, Im not sure what youre trying to accomplish.

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Like youre in the iso right now.

past dawn
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i guess

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idk the name of it

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You need to get that pacstrap working.

past dawn
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reflector didn't generate mirror list

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Then you can chroot and do additional shit.

past dawn
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for some reasen

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Did you install the base system and then reflector?

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Sounds like you never got around to get that pacstrap working.

past dawn
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reflector is in archiso

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Great.

past dawn
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and its runs automaticly

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like in pacman.d/mirrorlist it could be

mirrorlist generated by reflector

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but now its just arch linux repository mirror list
generated on 2025 10 21

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Then uhm cat /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

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Uhmm

past dawn
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What was your reflector command?

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I doubt the mirrors are an issue atm, the ping seemed to work as well.

past dawn
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reflectors runs AUTOMATICLY
and it also says read only fs 🙂

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Then youre just going around in circle. The original error message you got from pacstrap is very valid and confirmed then.

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Your fs is readonly, somehow.

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Not sure why or how though.

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You can either try and find an answer online and if you cant figure it out.
Can try making a new post to bump this one with the new info you got, editing this one with a better title like "file system is readonly, cant run pacstrap", try your luck in #quick-questions or try the arch installer if you really cant figure it out.

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Depending how urgently you need the system up and running.

shut locust
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Your ISO seems like it's broken

past dawn
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and it was working

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I haven't seen this error before, and because it's on the ISO it makes me thing it's been corrupted somehow

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How does that corelate to a read only filesystem?

past dawn
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You can try rebooting and see if this issue this happens, but if continues, I would try reflashing the USB

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past dawn
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Ehh, I would try and follow the clear error messages before wasting times on blind guesses.

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or maybe something with pacman on the ISO is messed and causing pacstrap to fail

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past dawn
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no

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I've read it lol, and if something isn't working on the ISO you should first try rebooting it

upbeat siren
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dumb question but did you connect to wifi and check your DNS settings?

past dawn
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fsdeshrug perhaps rebooting might help but I still dont understand how that would magically fix the fs error.

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reboot fixed that

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oh lol

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Try remounting your partitons and see if pacstrap works now

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Oh well, fking voodoo magic I swear. Here, have a cookie for being right.

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%give @shut locust

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past dawn
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can i ignore that error?

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about vconsole

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Yeah that's fine, the sd-vconsole hook expects it to exist but it works fine without it

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You can create a blank file at /etc/vconsole.conf later and it'll stop showing up

past dawn
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also errors were encountered during the build

upbeat siren
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Oh

past dawn
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Nvm

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Yeah my discord is laggy.

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Hmm I wonder if its only because of the vs console or if it outright didnt work.

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That typically just means that there was an error listed earlier from one of the hooks

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Okay.

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I think it would say something else if it failed outright

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Yeah my guess too.

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Can try going on with the rest and if linux doesnt boot you'll know the build is broken.

past dawn
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permission denied for root?

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Files have to be marked as executable before you can run them with ./

past dawn
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oh

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i forget that

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@past dawn

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... solved

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i can't