Installation error with log. New to Linux

Issues & Assistance
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https://termbin.com/fnr7

Hi I am unable to install CachyOS, I am not sure whether it is my partition size or it’s something else. Thank you for your help

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Yes it looks like you’re running out of space in /boot. See CachyOS Installation Desktop/Laptop | CachyOS

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oh thank you. I went with erase disk. I’m installing this on one of my HDD drives

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Hey just a quick question, i tried finding the “reason” myself and i think i have the correct reason and they are a bunch of write errors due to “no space left” and a bunch of url’s giving 404 (probably bc no internet?).

But im in a pickle why are there any 404’s at all?Or is my understanding of URL’s is a bit off? I thought they only appear in online environments.

Baisically my question is am i on the right track at all with all of this? Trying to get familiar with linux and i’d appreciate a yay or a nay on this. Thanks

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Calamares is normally littered with unhelpful “errors” unfortunately. For installation, it’s best to stick to the wiki, and look for errors/workarounds here. I find it hard to read that log myself

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That’s correct. It shows up in CachyOS’s Calamares installer because it is an online environment.

There’s a couple reasons for this.

  1. CachyOS is based on Arch Linux, which is a rolling release distribution. That means any offline installer and the software it contained would be out-of-date almost immediately after it was released, due to core system packages(of which there are many) get updated alongside the other software on a system. This contrasts to Windows and other Linux operating systems that would update those things quarterly, biannually, or another comparatively large chunk of time. So rather than snapshot the OS and ship it as an install iso only to then update the entire system after installation completes, nearly the entire process is done online. The iso really only contains a barebones environment for installation and recovery.

  2. CachyOS offers the option to install numerous desktop environments and window managers at the time of install and doesn’t have a true “default” choice in that department. This would be unfeasible on a traditional offline installer for obvious reasons. The iso’s file size would be enormous.

So, those 404s you are seeing is the installer evaluating different download mirrors and trying to find the best one to install the operating system’s packages from.

As dwouu said, they not errors, they’re “errors”. And honestly this is pretty common throughout Linux land. Often when you see an error it’s not a broken situation as there are a lot of fallbacks and contingencies that automatically correct them(404’d mirror? okay then finding another mirror). The errors are still marked as such for the purpose of logging so if something does go wrong, the log can be parsed easier to find the potential points of failure.

In this case the installation clearly failed due to the boot partition being too small, but everything else seems to have gone fine.

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Ahh i c Appreciate the reply friend