Archlinux on Ras Pi help

[paulstung]

I'm trying to instal Archlinux on my Pi, I've found a step buy step guide with all the relevant code I need to add. I have got as far as the Networking section and it keeps timing out, any peeps out there with any ideas. So far it is on try 17 I don't think it wants to play ball


I have got as far as this

root@alarmpi ~]# pacman -S ppp
[root@alarmpi ~]# wget

This is where I'm at.
"http://www.sakis3g.org/versions/latest/armv4t/sakis3g.gz"
[root@alarmpi ~]# echo "6c88a9961ba8861f2f668c178c02403f sakis3g.gz" | md5sum -c
[root@alarmpi ~]# gunzip -v sakis3g.gz
[root@alarmpi ~]# chmod +x sakis3g
[root@alarmpi ~]# mv sakis3g /usr/local/sbin/.
[root@alarmpi ~]# cat /etc/sakis3g.conf

I'm using the NOOBS way around loading the OS, the message I'm getting is


http://www.sakis3g.org/versions/latest/armv4t.sakis3g.gz connecting to www.sakis3g.org (www.sakis3g.org)137.6.254.1371:80... Failed: Connection timed out.

 

[remember300]

where did you get the source code from?
I was just gonna have a look and see if i could work it out

 

[alpenwasser]

Hm, interesting.

Pinging www.sakis3g.org gets me a nice response with ~100 ms delay time, however
when I try to acually access the site (or the file you've linked) I get a timed out error as
well.

I'm thinking this might actually something wrong with the sakis3g server and not an
error on your part.

Which guide are you following?

 

[paulstung]

http://hacktracking.blogspot.co.uk/2012/12/arch-linux-on-raspberry-pi.html

This is the one I'm using it seems to be the most straight forward to follow for a total code noob I thought it was about time I dipped my toe in

Have you got to use sakis3g, or can you use a different server ?

 

[alpenwasser]

Just found this, it seems you're not the only one with this problem:

linky

EDIT: I think this is the file you actually need.

 

[paulstung]

How do I go about doing what he sugested ?

Navigate to the directory where you unpacked the archive and type the following, pressing the enter key after each entry:

chmod +x sakis3g
./sakis3g --interactive

I didn't unpack anything it was preinstalled on a NOOBS SDcard

 

[alpenwasser]

Since I don't have a ras pi I can't try this out myself, so I'm doing a bit of guesswork.


Open a terminal and change into the directory where you've downloaded sagis3g.tar.gz.

Then extract it using

tar -xf sakis3g.tar.gz

Then you should have a second file in that directory called sakis3g (without extension).

After that you enter what is suggested:

chmod +x sakis3g
./sakis3g --interactive

The first line makes sagis3g executable (if it isn't already), and the second one actually
executes it.

EDIT: Fixed spelling

EDIT 2: Hold on, looking at the guide you're following you might actually need to
do something different, sorry. I'll try to figure it out, just a sec.

 

[paulstung]

How do you open a terminal if there is no os installed ? I no how to open it from homepage, but I tried that and have lost all the code I've already typed in.

 

[alpenwasser]

How do you open a terminal if there is no os installed ? I no how to open it from homepage, but I tried that and have lost all the code I've already typed in.

Sorry about that, I'll repost my EDIT 3 from above as a new post so you get the
update. You shouldn't need to open a new terminal of course, instead just
continue with the installation like so:


-----QUOTE from previous post-----
EDIT 3:
Ok, looking at your guide I would try out the following:

Instead of this section:

[root@alarmpi ~]# pacman -S ppp
[root@alarmpi ~]# wget "http://www.sakis3g.org/versions/latest/armv4t/sakis3g.gz"
[root@alarmpi ~]# echo "6c88a9961ba8861f2f668c178c02403f  sakis3g.gz" | md5sum -c
[root@alarmpi ~]# gunzip -v sakis3g.gz
[root@alarmpi ~]# chmod +x sakis3g
[root@alarmpi ~]# mv sakis3g /usr/local/sbin/.
[root@alarmpi ~]# cat /etc/sakis3g.conf

I would try this:

[root@alarmpi ~]# pacman -S ppp
[root@alarmpi ~]# wget -O sakis3g.tar.gz "http://sourceforge.net/projects/vim-n4n0/files/sakis3g.tar.gz/download"
[root@alarmpi ~]# gunzip -v sakis3g.tar.gz
[root@alarmpi ~]# chmod +x sakis3g
[root@alarmpi ~]# mv sakis3g /usr/local/sbin/.
[root@alarmpi ~]# cat /etc/sakis3g.conf

-----QUOTE from previous post-----

 

[paulstung]

Cheers mate I'll give it a go now.

 

[paulstung]

Not having it mate. On the second line down -0 is an invalid option

 

[alpenwasser]

That's an O as in Oscar, not a 0.

 

[paulstung]

O bugger, I'll try again

 

[paulstung]

problem with the line chmod +x sakis3g, cannot access ?sakis3g?: no such file or directory. It was going so well to

 

[alpenwasser]

Can you do

ls -l

(those are L's, not I's )
after having done

[root@alarmpi ~]# gunzip -v sakis3g.gz

EDIT:
Found an error, that line should of course be

[root@alarmpi ~]# gunzip -v sakis3g.tar.gz

Sorry about that.

 

[paulstung]

That line was fine it's the one after. chmod: cannot access ?sakis3g?: no such file

 

[alpenwasser]

Hm, interesting. I'm not sure why that worked despite the missing .tar.

Ah well then, let's have a look at what's in that directory. Can you post the
output of

ls -l

?

EDIT: After the gunzip line, of course, just at the point of failure.

 

[paulstung]

 

[alpenwasser]

Ah, I see.

Ok then, a few things:

• You do need to enter gunzip -v sakis3g.tar.gz and not gunzip -v sakis3g.gz. The .tar is
  required since you stored the file as sakis3g.tar.gz and not sakis3g.gz.
• Commands in Linux are case sensitive. gunzip -V will print out version information
  about gunzip, while gunzip -v will enter verbose mode (i.e. give more feedback during
  execution and upon completion).
• Since gunzip cannot unpack sakis3g.gz (because it does not exist) you then of
  course do not have its contents and therefore cannot do chmod +x sakis3g.
  sakis3g.tar.gz is an archive (like a zip file) which you need to decompress and unpack
  with gunzip. The file within that archive is called sakis3g (without any extensions).

So here's what I'd suggest trying out after the wget line (that seems to work from what
I see in that picture).

[root@alarmpi ~]# gunzip -v sakis3g.tar.gz

This should unpack the sakis3g.tar.gz archive and you should then have an additional
file in the directory you're currently in called sakis3g

[root@alarmpi ~]# chmod +x sakis3g
[root@alarmpi ~]# mv sakis3g /usr/local/sbin/.
[root@alarmpi ~]# cat /etc/sakis3g.conf

 

[paulstung]

Tried that I'm getting the message gzip: sakis3d.tar.gz: not in gzip format