Hi Tobias,
This message feeling alone is from:
https://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/35759
On Thu, 16 May 2019 at 03:54, Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <[email protected]> wrote:
> Guix,
>
> [This is for after 1.0.1, but I'd forget otherwise.]
>
> This happened to a new user on IRC tonight, and I understand their logic.
> After guided partitioning (using the installer), installation failed, and they
> decided to continue manually. Here's where they started:
>
> 3.6 Manual Installation
> =======================
>
> …
>
> * Menu:
>
> * Keyboard Layout and Networking and Partitioning:: Initial setup.
> * Proceeding with the Installation:: Installing.
>
> Having just ‘partitioned’, they ‘proceeded’. The first task in that section
> is ‘herd start cow-store’, which fails because /mnt isn't mounted yet.
> According to our manual, that's also part of ‘partitioning’. Eh. I get why,
> but would prefer to reorganise this a bit to make such errors less likely.
Well, now 1.0.1 is some old grey hair thing, I propose to not forget to
check the current manual. ;-) Then either fix it, either open a fresh
ticket on Codeberg and mark as first-good-issue. WDYT?
Cheers,
simon
