Ludovic Courtès writes: > Following advice and encouragements from Vagrant and Danny :-), I > successfully installed GuixSD on the SoftIron OverDrive 1000 machine > that was donated last January¹ (its PSU died a while back and I just > received a replacement from SoftIron, and I thought it was also a good > time to replace the distro.)
Ooh, nice! > On the first boot, the GuixSD activation snippets fail while trying to > install /etc, /etc/pam.d, and /etc/skel, and /etc/ssl because these > directories already exist (from openSuSE) whereas GuixSD assumes that > they don’t. The solution is just to remove/rename them from the Guile > initrd REPL. Once this is done, booting proceeds flawlessly and > happiness ensues. We could do with a more powerful REPL ;-) > ¹ https://gnu.org/software/guix/blog/2018/aarch64-build-machines-donated/ So...is there an opportunity for someone to start looking at a Reduced Binary Seed boostrap for AArch64? janneke.
