Everytime I am installing cachyOS it uses v4 instead of v3:
and hence this error message:
Do I modify the pacman.conf file to ensure it uses v3?
Your pacman.conf decides what repos you use and it is supported by the mirrorlist packages.
And there should be no reason to mix them.
What architecture should you be using?
ld.so --help | tail -n5
Oh, somehow I missed the VM part of this .. it may be said;
Ok it may not be recommended but then why is it that when I ran this command:
the output states that it supports v2 and v3, but then when installing it it attempts to install v4 packages (based on my understanding on the error log):
This means that if I were to do this on bare metal and on hardware that only supports v2 and v3, it would still attempt to install v4 packages?
No this means something else is wrong.
Could be related to something else but likely related to the VM and/or its settings.
I have seen 0 reports from any ISOs/installs in the last .. years? .. that are in any way related to the wrong architecture being assumed or applied.
Ok I have done some research and virtualbox does share what instruction set cpu supports to the guest OS, therefore cachyOS attempted to install them.
I at least managed to get past this on another computer with ddr4 ram intel cpu.