thought i would try a migration from a virtual machine install of arch to artix before doing it on real hardware.
following the migration guide i am stuck after removing systemd.
I get an error when preforming this command
cp -vf pacman.d/mirrorlist.artix pacman.d/mirrorlist
says file not found. closed out the terminal i was in, and turns out i cant launch a terminal or a file manager or any other program.
any advice? thanks
The fact that the file is not found means you skipped a previous step which creates that file. Or it is because you are using a relative path(which is what you wrote in this message) which also is not correct, the instructions don't have a relative path. Please go back and follow the guide exactly as it says.
You didn't follow the guide (https://wiki.artixlinux.org/Main/Migration) closely.
Keep in mind the migration guide is for advanced users who know what they are doing. It is in "Advanced tasks" section. To quote the guide:
the instructions in the guide are written exactly as i typed them in my original post.
(https://imgur.com/tceZFlA.png)
but now that you point it out, i do need to prepend /etc/ to those paths
aside from this, the virtual OS did become totally unresponsive after i removed the systemd components.
i guess i'll try again
well i thought i did follow it closely. i guess not close enough. i'll try again
The wiki article didn't actually specify the full absolute path there, but by following the part of the guide titled Prepare the repositories (https://wiki.artixlinux.org/Main/Migration#Prepare_the_repositories):
cp -vf /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist.artix
one is already familiar with the full pathname of the file
mirrorlist.artix, so it shouldn't normally cause confusion. Nevertheless, I have added the
/etc/ part in the article.