LibreELEC-RPi.arm-8.0.1 total noob

had a couple of attempts at this had it up and running on raspberry pi 1 32gb sd card
1st attempt
followed various methods formatting sd cards using image tool  to create a boot sd only trouble is when i boot into kodi i cant install any add-ons from sources ,or.from zip closer inspection of sd card libreelec created various partition on it one of 512mb fat32 for le one of about 32mb exeat this has kodi in it hidden from windows pc another 30gb exfat also hidden does libreelec use that unallocated space for running things why isnt possible with installing add-ons , i had this trouble dual booting on mxq box before so cant just be me lol ,

2nd attempt
read some where about using gparted to resize partitions went well so I thought had more showing in mmcblk0p2mmcblk0p2

still the same problem cant add anything then even after a reboot settings back to normal cant even change  the skin