- (0) Configure Network - detects the ethernet interface, probe succeeds and loads the module but then it just loops back to listing the available interface. I need to Ctrl+C and relaunch /arch/setup. Moreover, eth0 is up but gets no IP address. I need to start 'dhcpcd' in VC2 to grab one.
- (1) Prepare Hard Drive > (2) Partition Hard Drives - lists the available disk but after selecting /dev/sda to partition, it informs about mac-fdisk program about to launch and just loops. I can see an error flicker at the bottom of the screen "/arch/setup: line 573: mac-fdisk: command not found". I need to switch to VC2 and do 'pacman -Sy && pacman -S mac-fdisk' to work around it.
- (2) Install Packages - after refreshing packages and trying to download them, the installer complains "One or more packages failed to download. You can try again by re-selecting Install Packages from the main menu." VC5 shows a lot of warnings: cannot resolve "linux-api-headers>=3.2", a dependency of "glibc". If I try to 'pacman -Su' in VC2, I get warnings "local <pkgv1> is newer than core <pkgv2>" for filesystem, initscripts, linux-api-headers, linux-firmware, linux-pmac, linux-pmac-nosmp, linux-pmac64, mkinitcpio, pacman-mirrorlist.
I'm stuck here. Can't update/downgrade packages because of glibc deps.