Not free disk space downloading kde plasma

[silver spear]

I'm new to linux i somehow downloaded arch but for downloading kde plasma it's showing not enough free space what should I do now i have install all the stuff from the beginning or there's a solution for this and this was the command:
sudo pacman -S plasma-desktop dolphin konsole sddm

[graceful igloo]

You dont have enough space obviously

Only 3.9G rootfs

Whyd you create it so small

[silver spear]

Yes 😭 what can I do know

[graceful igloo]

Reinstall with a bigger root partition

[silver spear]

Well all thanks goes to chatgpt I did stuff using ai

[fathom steppe]

hm7 received a thank you cookie!

[graceful igloo]

...

[silver spear]

So I have to now reinstalling all stuff again ?

No other solution?

[graceful igloo]

Yes

.aw installation guide

[smoky tangle]

Installation guide

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Installation_guide

[graceful igloo]

Ofc you can expand the partition and fs but that is too hard for you since you relied on chatgpt

Follow the wiki

[silver spear]

So what about stuff already installed on this machine

[graceful igloo]

What stuff

[silver spear]

Linux firmware git vim networkmanager etc etc

[graceful igloo]

If you expand then it's kept, but you should just reinstall following the wiki

You barely have anything

And it'll be good practice

[silver spear]

Okie what about storage now how much should I keep it in installation guide also they said to keep it as 4gb that's why also I kept it

[graceful igloo]

Nothing says 4gb

[silver spear]

At least 4gb

[graceful igloo]

40G will be more than enough for the system itself

30G would be fine too but better to have it bigger and not have to expand it later because it's annoying

Your personal files vary so can't advice you on that size

[graceful igloo]

You're looking at the swap partition size

Root partition is below that

[silver spear]

Before now chatgpt said me to do 4 partitions so I did

[graceful igloo]

You can have a separate root and home but root still has to contain the system itself

Steam games go in your home

[silver spear]

Ohk

[graceful igloo]

Separate root and home are good for reinstallation because you can wipe your root partition and preserve the home partition

[silver spear]

I don't play games on this so I think I don't need it right ?

[graceful igloo]

LOL 421G swap

[graceful igloo]

Your users dirs are in the home dir

[silver spear]

🤣😭

[silver spear]

Ok

[graceful igloo]

You dont have to repartition

Just reformat

P1 as fat32 but delete all the files
mkswap p2
Ext4 p3
Ext4 p4

[silver spear]

Can you also tell me about mirrors while downloading base linux linux-firmware and other things I think I did pkgbuild one but that one gives error

[silver spear]

What I'm getting confused

[graceful igloo]

Your partitions are right but you don't have the filesystems in the right place

[silver spear]

Okay so I need to change that ?

[graceful igloo]

Just format them again

[graceful igloo]

If it does not work ootb then sort mirrors with reflector

[silver spear]

You mean plugged usb again and do this partitioning

[graceful igloo]

Yes...

[silver spear]

Can I MSG you bro if I need any help pls

[graceful igloo]

Just talk here

[silver spear]

Okie 🥲

[graceful igloo]

All you need to do is mkfs.ext4 the right partitions and mkswap

Then mount in the right places like how you did now

[silver spear]

What about downloading base linux and linux-firmware again I have to also do that right ?

[silver spear]

Bro can you pls tell me again what to do

[graceful igloo]

Obviously

As reformatting wipes

[graceful igloo]

Looks ok

[past ravine]

archinstall script works really easy if your new

what i used

especially if partitionings the issue

though it seems your past that point

[silver spear]

So now should I jump to archinstall

[past ravine]

depends

where you at rn?

[graceful igloo]

No

[graceful igloo]

Partition is already correct

[silver spear]

Well this was before i didn't do anything

[past ravine]

i agree with hm if your deep into it

then yeah

just in the hopes that you mighta been still in the starting phases

[graceful igloo]

Then you just formatted the partitions wrongly

[past ravine]

archinstall script does wonders

lmao

[silver spear]

Okay so what now buddy

[past ravine]

unless theres some drawback to it i dont know of

[graceful igloo]

You dont need to do anything here

Now just format and mkswap

[past ravine]

oooh freshy to arch

[silver spear]

Yep

[past ravine]

top tip is to get comfy with no gui

alot of it is rawdog cli

[graceful igloo]

You learn nothing by using archinstall

[past ravine]

(comand line install)

[past ravine]

lmao wym

i mean i guess you do learn some things

but a yt video is a bit more affective

trial by fire ig

good intro to what arch is like

another thing is that hes prolly gonna get tired of kde

and switch to sway

or wayland

i luuuuvvvv sway

its the best

but still @silver spear mark this as solved

unless this aint solved

[silver spear]

Well this specific issue is solved but not installing one

[past ravine]

oh alr

well just keep going through it untill we get through this

or you

[silver spear]

It will be thankful for me if you let it as it is

[fathom steppe]

saadtastic received a thank you cookie!

[silver spear]

Should I let it be as it is or let only be 3 partitions

One for efi 2nd for swap and 3rd as free space

[silver spear]

Why

[graceful igloo]

Free space isn't a partition

[silver spear]

Nah I mean I separated 50 g and 421.9 G separate that's why

[graceful igloo]

With separate root and home you can choose to not wipe the home if you reinstall

[silver spear]

Okay so what should do know after let it be as it is

[past ravine]

as you get more acustomed to linux and arch

people tend to want to change it

customize it, kinda the whole reason people use this os

but kde is very customizable dont get me wrong

end of the day what you think looks cooler and feels cooler matters

[silver spear]

That's the reason I'm getting on arch 🫡

[past ravine]

goodie

but still get use to loaads of cli

kinda the reason hm7 is making you do manual instal lol

lowk boot camp 🎋

[silver spear]

Bro I done mounting here's the result and can you tell me mirror setup

[graceful igloo]

It's nothing special

Just do it according to the wiki

Or use reflector

reflector --latest 10 --protocol https --sort rate --save /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

[silver spear]

I didn't touch mirror directly downloaded files

Base linux linux-firmware

[graceful igloo]

What?

[silver spear]

I mean directly use pacstrap -K /mnt base linux linux-firmware sudo nano networkmanager

It ended with some errors but chatgpt says it's non critical

[graceful igloo]

There should be no errors, there can be warnings in the mkinitcpio though which can be ignored

[graceful igloo]

You can install reflector and run this in chroot to get the fastest mirrors

[silver spear]

I think you said is true i also trying download kde plasma but it also get end up getting errors

[graceful igloo]

You should post the errors if you want help

[silver spear]

I can't able to send errors when I try to download base Linux linux-firmware nano and etc things it happened too fast but I can able to send errors while downloading kde plasma should I do that?

[graceful igloo]

Is it something like timed out downloading X

[silver spear]

It shows this

[graceful igloo]

Badly picked mirrors or slow internet

pacman -S reflector

reflector --latest 10 --protocol https --sort rate --save /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

[silver spear]

Okie so should I again install arch and kde but what about this half downloaded stuff it shouldn't corrupt files right ?

@graceful igloo

[graceful igloo]

I didn't say anything about installing arch again

[graceful igloo]

It's ok

Just run the commands I sent in chroot and you may get faster mirrors

[silver spear]

Okay lemme try

[silver spear]

Bro I think it failed

[graceful igloo]

It worked
cat /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

as long as there's urls in that file you don't need to send a ss

now try installing kde or whatever

[silver spear]

So after this command shouldn't I have to save link using echo or directly download arch Linux

[graceful igloo]

wha

cat just shows you that files contents

what do you even mean "directly download"??

There's no such thing

[silver spear]

So what should I do now ? 😭

Sorry bro I have 0 brain cells that's why I'm asking

[graceful igloo]

Continue

[silver spear]

What

[graceful igloo]

With the install

and the pacman commands that failed

[silver spear]

I tried again packstrap -K /mnt base linux linux-firmware sudo etc etc

[graceful igloo]

Did you do that in chroot or outside of it

you were already in chroot so i would think the pacstrap already completed

[silver spear]

But it showing bash : packstrap : command not found

[graceful igloo]

Yeah you're in chroot and the arch install tools aren't installed by default

And you don't need them in the installed system

[silver spear]

So I guess I already installed arch now only kde plasma remains right ?

[graceful igloo]

yeah

[silver spear]

Okie lemme try it

[silver spear]

I did install kde plasma I guess by this command
Pacman -S plasma-desktop dolphin konsole sddm

[graceful igloo]

Did you intend to install the minimal just plasma-desktop?

You'll want the plasma group for a full experience

anyway

continue

by enabling sddm and networkmanager

systemctl enable sddm
systemctl enable NetworkManager

then you can boot

[silver spear]

I booted bro 😭🫡

Finally everything worked I guess can you tell me what should I do next

[graceful igloo]

.aw general recommendations

[smoky tangle]

General recommendations

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/General_recommendations

[graceful igloo]

Create a user for yourself if you haven't already, you probably have since you were able to start plasma