Hi Thomas! Thanks for your report on your experience. It’s very helpful in understanding what’s wrong and in improving the thing!
Thomas Danckaert <p...@thomasdanckaert.be> skribis: > - I had a false start because on my first attempt, I did not have a > BIOS boot partition (there was still an EFI system partition, > originally from a past windows installation, I think), so the final > step of the installation, installing grub, failed. 宋文武 already > submitted a patch to point out this requirement in the docs. Good. :-) I hope we can eventually rely on a manual that deals specifically with partitioning. > - During this first attempt, which would ultimately fail for the > above reason, I also got an error running “herd start cow-store > /mnt”. The message was: > > “ERROR. in procedure mount: mount "./rw-store" on "/gnu/store": > invalid > argument” > > I decided to reboot and try again, but got the same message. > However, when running guix system reconfigure, the store in > /mnt/gnu/store did get populated (which is the point of cow-store, > as I understand it), so perhaps this error was not fatal... > > On my second attempt (then with the correct boot partition), I did > not get this error anymore. So I have no further information, I'm > afraid. The only difference that I'm aware of between both > attempts, was the partitioning scheme (2nd attempt added the BIOS > boot partition, and removed a few unnecessary partitions). People reported it before but I don’t see how this can happen. At any rate, there seems to be a bug lurking here, we’ll have to investigate. > - I followed advice I thought I'd once read somewhere (though not in > the manual), and first installed a basic system with the bare-bones > config from > > https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/html_node/Using-the-Configuration-System.html#Using-the-Configuration-System, > > and then switched to a full desktop environment after booting into > the newly installed system for the first time (perhaps I > could/should have just used a full desktop rightaway?). I had > used the wireless during installation, but didn't include > wpa_supplicant (and whatever else might be needed to get similar > wifi support as the installation image) in my system > configuration, so I couldn't use wireless anymore after booting > into my new system :-) Therefore, I had to walk over to my router > and connect by cable to continue (at least that was the solution I > came up with). Heh. :-) > - When I tried to login as non-root user for the first time, my home > directory was not there, and I was sent back to the login screen. I > logged in as root and created/chown'ed the home directory myself. > Unfortunately, I have no further information here, either. Could it be that /home is a separate partition? There’s a bug waiting to be fixed in this area: <https://bugs.gnu.org/21108>. > Now, the system works fine, though I'll try to tweak it for better > touchpad support, graphics acceleration (I'm gnome3 is currently > unusable) and sharper fonts. Those things worked better when it was > running Ubuntu, though I suspect some of that was due to non-free > driver blobs etc. If you find ways to tweak it, let us know how we can improve the default settings. Thank you! LUdo’.
