Hi, On Thu, 01 Oct 2026 at 19:10, Simon Tournier <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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? A friendly reminder. :-) Cheers, simon
