zedenv for Boot Environments in ALEZ (and how to do networking) about alez HOT 6 CLOSED

You might need to update your mirrorlist, it's unlikely this is a ALEZ related issue. Are you getting a message like:

error: failed retrieving file '<PACKAGE>-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz' from <MIRROR> : Protocol rsync not supported or disabled in libcurl

First i'd try just running pacman -Syyu, and seeing if that fixes the issue. If it doesn't, maybe update your mirrorlist.

from alez.

hi, yes that is the error. also, says "could not resolve host". pacman -Syyu fails with same error. ping fails with both IP or hostname. this ALEZ arch linux is installed in linux qemu/kvm VM with default settings. the fresh install of ALEZ fails to network. should it network by default? how to configure networking in ALEZ? thanks

from alez.

Yes you need to set up a networking. It's essentially a system with nothing configured, all that's been done is ZFS has been configured.

I'd recommend going through Network configuration, and taking a look through the Installation guide in case there was anything else you wanted to set up.

The easiest way to set up networking on a wired host would be using systemd-networkd, and optionally systemd-resolved

Create /etc/systemd/network/20-wired.network

Assuming your network adapter is en*, the following configuration should work:

[Match]
Name=en*

[Network]
DHCP=yes

Then start and enable systemd-networkd.service, and optionally systemd-resolved.service:

systemctl enable --now systemd-networkd.service systemd-resolved.service

from alez.

Hi, John, You solved it. The network works, so pacman works. No errors. Next goal is to make boot environments.

beadm seems to be unavailable in arch linux? So trying zedenv?

pacman -S zedenv
results in "error: target not found: zedenv"

How to install and configure zedenv to make boot environments?

Much appreciated. Thanks!

from alez.

You need to install zedenv and zedenv-grub from the AUR or source.

As the Wiki mentions you should probably familiarize yourself with makepkg, but if you want the easy way out, install an AUR helper, I'd recommend yay as a good one to start with.

This should get you started:

pacman -S base-devel git

Switch to your user and install yay

git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/yay.git
cd yay
makepkg -sic

Now you can install zedenv and if you're using GRUB, zedenv-grub.

yay -S zedenv zedenv-grub

If using zedenv-grub (as root):

zedenv set org.zedenv.grub:bootonzfs=yes

You'll now want to read the documentation for zedenv.

This is a little bit out of scope of ALEZ, so i'm going to close this. If you end up running into a bug with zedenv feel free to open an issue there.

You should probably read through the installation guide, is it a good place to start. You want to familiarize yourself with the wiki, as it has most of the answers you will need.

from alez.

Hi, John, Thanks for those details. The zedenv and zedenv-grub are now installed and work. You are the best. Thanks!

from alez.