Problems with Arch install

bcbotha · 09-11-2013, 05:28 AM

Hi

I am battling trying to install Arch on my laptop. I have been using this website to help me install: http://http://news.softpedia.com/new...x-352365.shtml

However when I get to pacstrap /mnt base base-devel I start to run into problems.
It checks and downloads the packages but doesn't install them. I get this output:

Code:

error: Partition / too full: 60 blocks needed, 0 blocks free
error: not enough free disk space
error: failed to commit transaction (not enough free disk space)
Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.

I am really trying to learn and understand linux as best as I can so I really don't mind battling to get Arch installed, it is helping me learn new aspects of linux and os's in general.

Thanks

syg00 · 09-11-2013, 06:42 AM

Seems pretty self-explanatory. What are your partition sizings and how full are the filesystems ?.
The lsblk command from the tutorial will answer the first question, and this will answer the latter - post the full output from both

Code:

df -hT

michaelk · 09-11-2013, 06:54 AM

The link does not work for me.
Need some additional information.

Is this a duel boot or virtual machine?
How did you partition the laptop? The base group needs 500M.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php...rtition_scheme

syg00 · 09-11-2013, 06:59 AM

Badly formed URL - edit out the first "http:"

I also meant to mention the Arch documentation (including the wiki) - amongst the best there is; very good.

michaelk · 09-11-2013, 07:25 AM

Dang it I missed the :...

bcbotha · 09-12-2013, 01:44 AM

my partition sizes are:
swap: 3.7 Gig /dev/sda1
/: 14 Gig ?dev/sda2
/home: 131.4 Gig /dev/sda3

df -hT:

Filesystem Type Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/arch_root_image ext4 1.4G 664M 724M 48% /
dev devtmpfs 875M 0 875M 0% /dev
run tmpfs 883M 18M 866M 2% /run
/dev/sr0 iso9660 525M 525M 0 100% /run/archiso/bootmnt
cowspace tmpfs 1.3G 952K 1.3G 1% /run/archiso/cowspace
/dev/loop0 squashfs 223M 223M 0 100% /run/archiso/sfs/root-image
tmpfs tmpfs 883M 0 883M 0% /dev/shm
tmpfs tmpfs 883M 0 883M 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
tmpfs tmpfs 883M 0 883M 0% /tmp
tmpfs tmpfs 883M 0 883M 0% /etc/pacman.d/gnupg
/dev/sda2 ext4 14M 3.7M 8.6M 30% /mnt
/dev/sda3 ext4 130M 1.6M 119M 2% /mnt/home

I see that it says I have a 14Meg and 130Meg partitions but when I run lsblk it says that /dev/sda2 is 14G and /dev/sda3 is 131.4G

I'm confused at this stage.

John VV · 09-12-2013, 02:36 AM

softpedia is all fine and dandy
but you REALLY need to read and study
then RE-read and study some more "the Arch wiki"

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Main_Page

the "install guide" is a step by step
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Installation_Guide
with references to other pages for each topic
and the "Beginners Guide "
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Beginners%27_Guide

then the "Arch way"
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/The_Arch_Way

put down on paper a INSTALL plan
yes it is basically the same as a research paper outline
write out what it is you are going to do and in what order
after the basic install ,the DE and related software .

bcbotha · 09-12-2013, 05:28 AM

Thanks John

I have been using cfdisk to partition my hdd, I re-did the partitioning with fdisk and followed the beginners guide and I have got the OS installed. Thanks very much guys for your help.

1 quetion though....why did fdisk work and not cfdisk?

thanks
Brendan