Finally i reinstalled my EOS

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I finally managed to reinstall my EOS. The Plasma installation without Disover and connection to Nextcloud worked without any problems. But the most important thing was to reinstall /efi. In my old system I only had 500mb. Nobody knows why :rofl:
Now I have 2GB , 3 kernel and fallback versions.
Set up a few ~/.config files, install a few progs and tweak a bit. Too bad, a nice day outside but what can I do :sweat_smile:

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I always postpone such actions to days with bad weather :rofl:

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I usually try to do that too, but once you’ve caught on it’s hard not to keep going :vulcan_salute:

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You can’t argue with that, I’m constantly falling for this bait myself :slightly_smiling_face:

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There is no end to it either. Oh, I can think of this or that. It goes on and on like this :enos_flag:

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Mine is only 1GB. I also have 3 kernel and fallback versions, which seem to be more than sufficient in my case.

Size: 1.00 GiB
Used: 30% - 301.21 MiB
Available: 70% - 722.79 MiB
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Mercury neo comes with 2gb in calameres by default. I have manually partitioned /efi and / on a 250GB nvme and /home in a 1TB nvme. 1gig is completely sufficient. As described above, 3 kernel and fallback mode. I had to deactivate fallback on my old installation

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Some days ago, I switched from EOS KDE Plasma to Gnome. Before installing EOS Gnome, I created a backup of EOS Plasma. Then I wanted to go back to KDE Plasma again and wanted to recover my created Backup. But because of the new release of Mercury Neo, I thought it would be a good idea, to reinstall EOS KDE Plasma from scratch again.

And yes, I think it was a good idea … again. Because I reinstalled EOS a lot in the last months. I think I could close my eyes while installing EOS and would click the right buttons … :rofl:

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I had installed an incredible amount of junk. So I check the list and prefer to reinstall some progs again. ~/.config and /etc is actually the most important :wink:

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I have backups for all my important apps and their configs. So, if I have to reinstall I don’t have any fear … :wink:

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Config backup is mostly important thing.

I just didn’t want to install my complete list, so I’ll go through it point by point. There is really a lot of garbage in there :rofl:

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I am still a newcomer to arch based linux. How do you manage to add more kernel versions to the efi ?

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perhaps start a new thread?

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Yeah Its time I do that again. I did it last year and got rid of like 30 extra apps I didn’t use but wanted to try out and I think I’m there again

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sudo pacman -S linux-lts linux-lts-headers linux-zen linux-zen-headers

Simply run that command. But @thefrog is right. There is probably much more for you to do and to note. So please start a new thread :vulcan_salute:

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Sometimes I install just to test and then I forget to uninstall it again. This then piles up. As described above I only reinstalled because of /efi of 300mb. That’s really not much :rofl:

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I just checked my incept on my main box (stat -c %w /) and it’s some time late last year.

I’ve never installed a fallback kernel, - maybe that’s something worth having, although I’d rather not break what isn’t broken.. - you’re right, it’s way too sunny out there..! Holding out for a rainy day! There’s something about sitting in front of a command line on a cloudy day with the rain falling against the window that just hits different.. :slight_smile:

Edit: Installed the LTS kernel, literally sudo pacman -Syu linux-lts linux-lts-headers and then just follow the EOS wiki (which is priceless!) to wildcard the mainline kernel as the default boot option. Took less than 3 mins..

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@swh
Nothing wrong with a new install. :wink:

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There is a tool called akm.

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