Current Artix is to install/update onto another one and partition

30 April 2023, 01:13:33

Current partition is primary Arch and have another OS partition on mounted dir. named /mnt/OSraw/

So just try to go on updating it by the current updated primary OS partition by:

$ sudo pacman --sysroot /mnt/OSraw/ -S linux linux-firmware base

but then got:

error: could not open file: /etc/mtab: No such file or directory
error: could not determine filesystem mount points
error: failed to commit transaction (unexpected error)
Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.

How to do the correct way ?

Re: Current Artix is to od install/update onto another one and partition

Reply #1 – 30 April 2023, 15:00:31

If possible use "chroot" to enter to the second OS environment. then use normal "pacman" command to update.

but if you still insist on using "--sysroot" flag, just follow arch wiki