Re: Disappearing development installation images

Am Fri, Jun 14, 2024 at 11:58:06AM +0200 schrieb Ludovic Courtès: > After investigating, it turns out we had a periodic job on berlin > removing GC roots for *.iso and *.qcow2—no wonder they’d disappear > earlier than expected. That job was added at a time where we had disk > space issues that hav

Disappearing development installation images

Hello Guix! We got a couple more reports that installation images at <https://guix.gnu.org/en/download/latest/> would disappear. After investigating, it turns out we had a periodic job on berlin removing GC roots for *.iso and *.qcow2—no wonder they’d disappear earlier than expected. Th

Re: Guix bios installation: Grub error: unknown filesystem

; create a VM and test through that? Or is there a way I can invoke the > > 'installation tests' that have been failing locally? > > Apparently the latest version needs a tiny patch mentioned here: > > https://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/development/chapter08/gr

Re: Guix bios installation: Grub error: unknown filesystem

Hi! adansk...@gmail.com skribis: > I might try doing this. It's a little scary though, updating the > bootloader... What do you think would be the best way to test it? Should I > create a VM and test through that? Or is there a way I can invoke the > 'installation

Re: Guix bios installation: Grub error: unknown filesystem

fs -l` to see what features weren't > supported. The ones I can remember are the metadata_csum features, and > some other ones (they showed up as FEATURE_X when running `tune2fs` on > my Guix installation image, so I used a Gparted Live CD to get rid of > the features that weren&#

Re: Guix bios installation: Grub error: unknown filesystem

ones I can remember are the metadata_csum features, and > some other ones (they showed up as FEATURE_X when running `tune2fs` on > my Guix installation image, so I used a Gparted Live CD to get rid of > the features that weren't recognised by tune2fs). > > This should allow grub to r

Re: Guix bios installation: Grub error: unknown filesystem

Hi Attila, On 4/22/24 9:04 PM, Attila Lendvai wrote: This should allow grub to recognise your filesystem during the installation process. I think using a later version of grub would fix this, but that hasn't happened yet. I think there's a patch to upgrade it in `core-updates` some

Re: Guix bios installation: Grub error: unknown filesystem

> This should allow grub to recognise your filesystem during the > installation process. I think using a later version of grub would fix > this, but that hasn't happened yet. I think there's a patch to upgrade > it in `core-updates` somewhere, but I'm not sure. grub se

Re: Guix bios installation: Grub error: unknown filesystem

Hi Ada, I very much appreciate your detailed response. For a moment I thought my email hadn't made it to this list, both because it didn't show up, and the lack of acknowledgment. After a day or so, I filed a bug report instead [1] - which produced the expected acknowledgement... Still learnin

Re: Guix bios installation: Grub error: unknown filesystem

some other ones (they showed up as FEATURE_X when running `tune2fs` on my Guix installation image, so I used a Gparted Live CD to get rid of the features that weren't recognised by tune2fs). This should allow grub to recognise your filesystem during the installation process. I think usi

Guix bios installation: Grub error: unknown filesystem

I'm having trouble installing guix in qemu, using a "fresh" guix ISO. ``` building /gnu/store/byjlc85abyjc3fjj9z982677skmda7ib-module-import-compiled.drv... building /gnu/store/psw8xn9qpsjjnrqmjrfv0v3jj9fphq5m-module-import-compiled.drv... building /gnu/store/a1zcrrcdwhb4wb2g4r0ph8mqclq7f5xn-in

Re: doc: installation: fix ~root confusion (was Re: doc: Removing much of Binary Installation)

Hi, "pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" skribis: > Otherwise LGTM. Could you send another diff? Would a commit message > like this be okay: > > doc: Simplify installation instructions. > > * doc/guix.texi (Installation): Direct readers towards the installation &

Re: doc: installation: fix ~root confusion (was Re: doc: Removing much of Binary Installation)

the Contributing manual in doc/contributing.texi. WDYT? You said, >> it could be a separate discussion, but in my opinion it would be part of >> the same patch. > > I was thinking of the opposite, of moving "Building from Git" into > Installation. What you say mak

Re: doc: installation: fix ~root confusion (was Re: doc: Removing much of Binary Installation)

2 Requirements > * 2.3 Running the Test Suite > > to the Contributing manual in doc/contributing.texi. WDYT? You said, > it could be a separate discussion, but in my opinion it would be part of > the same patch. I was thinking of the opposite, of moving "Building from Git"

Re: doc: installation: fix ~root confusion (was Re: doc: Removing much of Binary Installation)

ou actually configure it to work like the instructions above (e.g. add a systemd override). At least once, I pulled patches from guix upstream into the Debian package to resolve security issues in the Debian packages. Just to be absolutely clear here, "guix pull" and whatnot works fin

Re: doc: installation: fix ~root confusion (was Re: doc: Removing much of Binary Installation)

Hi Matt. I would almost want to push your changes, but we still disagree on some wordings. Also, Matt writes: > I realigned the subject. It was previously changed to "doc: Removing > much of Binary Installation" which is misleading. The topic is how to > clarify in

Re: doc: installation: fix ~root confusion (was Re: doc: Removing much of Binary Installation)

Hi vagrant, On Sunday, March 10th, 2024 at 9:58 PM, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: > > > On 2024-03-10, Suhail Singh wrote: > > > Vagrant Cascadian vagr...@debian.org writes: > > > > > but "guix pull" does not update the running guix-daemon; > > > > Just to be clear, however, if one were to do

Re: doc: installation: fix ~root confusion (was Re: doc: Removing much of Binary Installation)

On 2024-03-10, Suhail Singh wrote: > Vagrant Cascadian writes: >> but "guix pull" does not update the running guix-daemon; > > Just to be clear, however, if one were to do =sudo -i guix pull= > instead, followed by =systemctl restart guix-daemon.service= it /would/ > update the running guix-daemon

Re: doc: installation: fix ~root confusion (was Re: doc: Removing much of Binary Installation)

Vagrant Cascadian writes: > but "guix pull" does not update the running guix-daemon; Just to be clear, however, if one were to do =sudo -i guix pull= instead, followed by =systemctl restart guix-daemon.service= it /would/ update the running guix-daemon on Debian, correct? Or is that not the cas

Re: doc: installation: fix ~root confusion (was Re: doc: Removing much of Binary Installation)

On 2024-03-10, m...@excalamus.com wrote: > On Wed, 06 Mar 2024 22:29:23 +0100 Vagrant Cascadian wrote --- >> As the one who packaged and maintains guix in Debian... > > Thank you for doing this work! > >> The guix-daemon should continue to work from the packaged version, although >> as guix

doc: installation: fix ~root confusion (was Re: doc: Removing much of Binary Installation)

I realigned the subject. It was previously changed to "doc: Removing much of Binary Installation" which is misleading. The topic is how to clarify installation based on reported confusion, not about removing text. The reported confusion was on the use of '~root'. Explic

Re: doc: Removing much of Binary Installation

@pxref{System Installation}. Maybe better say “complete Guix operating system”? *complete* GNU operating system maybe should only be used for GNU/Hurd. You suggested in your mail: Matt writes: > Readers interested > in those details may read the code for 'guix-install.sh'. Could y

Re: doc: Removing much of Binary Installation (was: Feedback of the GNU Guix manual)

essary files in the /usr file tree that are part of the > Guix AUR package but that are never used by Guix anymore. Therefore, > consider using the manual installation.” [0] > > The reason of existence for these distribution packages is probably > similar to the reason why the Binary

Re: doc: Removing much of Binary Installation

Suhail Singh writes: > FWIW, as an openSUSE Tumbleweed user, I believe Tumbleweed users who > don't care if there is an easy way to uninstall Guix would be better > served by using =guix-install.sh= as opposed to =zypper=. Btw, for completeness, on Tumbleweed, the user needs to take some additio

Re: doc: Removing much of Binary Installation

. However, the version of Guix installed via =zypper= does install manpages (presumably generated via =help2man=). As such, after updating Guix, running something like =man guix= results in outdated manpage being shown. If Guix installation is done via =guix-install.sh=, no manpage is shown wh

Re: doc: Removing much of Binary Installation (was: Feedback of the GNU Guix manual)

ix once, > the AUR advantage really turns into a disadvantage, as there will be many > unnecessary files in the /usr file tree that are part of the Guix AUR > package but that are never used by Guix anymore. Therefore, consider using > the manual installation.” [0] > > [0] ht

doc: Removing much of Binary Installation (was: Feedback of the GNU Guix manual)

Thank you Matt for the suggested diff. Yes, I agree some simplification as you suggested would be beneficial, so that the description of Binary Installation looks as simple as it really is. (In particular, I have witnessed people, to whom I had suggested Guix, fail at trying Guix because they

Re: declarative partition and format with Guix (was Re: Guix System automated installation)

Giovanni Biscuolo writes: [...] >> but I think this is close to the right track. Either operating-system >> should be extended to support things like disk partitioning, the library for doing this with Guile is guile-parted (packaged in Guix); it's used by the Guix Installer: https://git.savan

declarative partition and format with Guix (was Re: Guix System automated installation)

. That > boot-and-it-just-works experience is what I want from Guix. I understand that it's just a workaround but you can achieve this boot-and-it-just-works (if there isn't bugs in the script/preseed) experience with a simple bash script to automate "manual installation" I wro

Re: Guix System automated installation

messages intact Csepp writes: Ian Eure writes: Hello, On Debian, you can create a preseed file containing answers to all the questions you’re prompted for during installation, and build a new install image which includes it. When booted, this installer skips any steps which have been preco

Guix System automated installation

o, >> >> On Debian, you can create a preseed file containing answers to all the >> questions >> you’re prompted for during installation, and build a new install image which >> includes it. When booted, this installer skips any steps which have been >> preconfi

Re: cannot boot after installation on VPS (via rescue system)

> > On one VPS of mine (which also happens to have Guix installed via > > rescue mode) the root is mounted from /dev/vda1. > > Out of curiosity: what's the hoster, please? https://rapiddc.pl/ It's a result of a long search for a decent Europe-based provider. I didn't choose any of the mainstr

Re: cannot boot after installation on VPS (via rescue system)

Hi Saku! Saku Laesvuori writes: >>>> Now I'm trying to use it on two VPS from two different vendors, booted >>>> in rescue mode, but after the installation (via bootstrap-guix.sh) when >>>> I reboot the VPS I get the usual grub menu but the boot pr

Re: cannot boot after installation on VPS (via rescue system)

>>> Now I'm trying to use it on two VPS from two different vendors, booted >>> in rescue mode, but after the installation (via bootstrap-guix.sh) when >>> I reboot the VPS I get the usual grub menu but the boot process suddenly >>> fails with this error (ma

Re: cannot boot after installation on VPS (via rescue system)

Hi Wojtek! Wojtek Kosior writes: >> --8<---cut here---start->8--- >> >> Scanning for Btrfs filesystems >> ice-9/boot9.scm:1685:16: In procedure raise-exception: >> In procedure mount: No such file or directory >> GRUB loading... >> Entering a new prompt. Typ

Re: cannot boot after installation on VPS (via rescue system)

Hi Joshua! jbra...@dismail.de writes: [...] >> Now I'm trying to use it on two VPS from two different vendors, booted >> in rescue mode, but after the installation (via bootstrap-guix.sh) when >> I reboot the VPS I get the usual grub menu but the boot process suddenly &

Re: cannot boot after installation on VPS (via rescue system)

R29kIGlzIHRoZXJlIGFuZCBsb3ZlcyBtZQ== | ÷ c2luIHNlcGFyYXRlZCBtZSBmcm9tIEhpbQ== ✝ YnV0IEplc3VzIGRpZWQgdG8gc2F2ZSBtZQ== | ? U2hhbGwgSSBiZWNvbWUgSGlzIGZyaWVuZD8= -- (sig_end) On Wed, 21 Feb 2024 10:54:16 +0100 Giovanni Biscuolo wrote: > From: Giovanni Biscuolo > To: guix-devel@gnu.org > S

Re: cannot boot after installation on VPS (via rescue system)

7;m developing a shell script to automate the "manual" > installation of Guix on bare metal and VPS, you can find it attached to > this email as bootstrap-guix.sh or at this git repo URL: > https://gitlab.com/softwareworkers/swws/-/blob/master/infrastructure/hosts/cornouiller/bootstrap-g

cannot boot after installation on VPS (via rescue system)

Hello, following the good guidelines from (info "(guix-cookbook) Running Guix on a Kimsufi Server") and (info "(guix-cookbook) Running Guix on a Linode Server") I'm developing a shell script to automate the "manual" installation of Guix on bare metal and VP

Re: guix installation why internet connection required?

Hi Giovanni, Giovanni Biscuolo writes: > Sorry I don't understand the problem, could you expand please? > > The guix (and daemon) versione are those of the channel used when > creating the install .iso image; booting the 1.40 installer we get a > "guix version" and "guix describe" value of 989a3

Re: guix installation why internet connection required?

Hi Maxim and v...@mail-on.us, I'm including 43...@debbugs.gnu.org to keep track of the discussion on this feature request (Add the ability to install GuixSD offline) Maxim Cournoyer writes: > v...@mail-on.us writes: > >> x86 x64 gnu guix system 1.4.0 iso requires internet connection in order to

Re: guix installation why internet connection required?

Hi, v...@mail-on.us writes: > x86 x64 gnu guix system 1.4.0 iso requires internet connection in order to get > installed. Same goes for i686 iso. > > Why is that so? Why is there no > iso option for installing off line? Thanks. There's this ticket about the same: #43049. If I remember correctly

Re: guix installation why internet connection required?

it has the bare minimum needed to customise the installation options and then downloads the packages when installing. There's no option for installing offline because Guix currently doesn't offer ISO images that do that, even though it's possible. There's previous

guix installation why internet connection required?

x86 x64 gnu guix system 1.4.0 iso requires internet connection in order to get installed. Same goes for i686 iso. Why is that so? Why is there no iso option for installing off line? Thanks. - This free account was provided by VFEmail.net - report

Re: Installation of Sheperd under Linux from Scratch

Hello Andreas, On 6/22/23 12:56, Andreas Buchter wrote: > I would like to install/use Shepherd as an init system under LFS (Linux from > Scratch) https://www.linuxfromscratch.org > No clue what would be required to do that. Could someone give me any hints? > Th

Re: Installation of Sheperd under Linux from Scratch

Hi Andreas, On Sun, Jun 25, 2023 at 1:48 AM Andreas Buchter wrote: > > I would like to install/use Shepherd as an init system under LFS (Linux from > Scratch) Woa, that's a blast from the past! [1] You will learn a lot about Linux, but please make sure not to give up and go back to Winblows. F

package definition question: installation into system directory

Hi, I was trying to create a package definition for xrdp. when testing the package build, its fails at installation step: libtool: install: /gnu/store/a5i8avx826brw5grn3n4qv40g514505c-coreutils-9.1/bin/install -c .libs/xrdp-sesman /gnu/store/6rfpjdc3vcsfw3yi1cr42g81pd1lw63l-xrdp-0.9.22.1/sbin

Installation of Sheperd under Linux from Scratch

I would like to install/use Shepherd as an init system under LFS (Linux from Scratch) https://www.linuxfromscratch.org No clue what would be required to do that. Could someone give me any hints? Thank you!

Re: package definition question: installation into system directory

Hi Andy, On Fri, Jun 23, 2023 at 11:44 AM Andy Tai wrote: > > Hi, I was trying to create a package definition for xrdp. > > cannot create directory ‘/etc/xrdp’: Permission denied Installation paths must be located inside the output folder. The paths always point into the stor

package definition question: installation into system directory

Hi, I was trying to create a package definition for xrdp. when testing the package build, its fails at installation step: libtool: install: /gnu/store/a5i8avx826brw5grn3n4qv40g514505c-coreutils-9.1/bin/install -c .libs/xrdp-sesman /gnu/store/6rfpjdc3vcsfw3yi1cr42g81pd1lw63l-xrdp-0.9.22.1/sbin

Re: Error booting aarch64 installation image

On Tue, Feb 21, 2023 at 10:06:41AM +0200, Max Brieiev wrote: > Hi Roman, > > Roman Scherer writes: > > > I think you need to use --image-type=efi-raw for this to work. > > Unfortunately, this doesn't build and produces yet another errors. > > > I actually installed my Guix system from another

Re: Error booting aarch64 installation image

Hi Roman, Roman Scherer writes: > I think you need to use --image-type=efi-raw for this to work. Unfortunately, this doesn't build and produces yet another errors. > I actually installed my Guix system from another distro. I roughly > followed this guide here: > > https://guix.gnu.org/blog/201

Re: Error booting aarch64 installation image (was: Building arm64 guix system image)

Roman Scherer writes: > >> I'm running Guix system on an Apple M1 and also run into these >> issues. At the moment I'm using the following commit to build my system: >> >> 7833acab0da02335941974608510c02e2d1d8069 > > Thank you, I managed to build installat

Error booting aarch64 installation image (was: Building arm64 guix system image)

Hi Roman, Roman Scherer writes: > I'm running Guix system on an Apple M1 and also run into these > issues. At the moment I'm using the following commit to build my system: > > 7833acab0da02335941974608510c02e2d1d8069 Thank you, I managed to build installation image from

Re: Can we integrate application-setup with the installation script?

Hi, Raghav Gururajan skribis: > Quite a few people I know, who tried guix for first time on foreign > distro, mentioned to me that they presumed the installation script to > cover everything, including application-setup. > > Is it possible to automate application-setup through t

Can we integrate application-setup with the installation script?

Hello Guix! Quite a few people I know, who tried guix for first time on foreign distro, mentioned to me that they presumed the installation script to cover everything, including application-setup. Is it possible to automate application-setup through the installation script or is there a

Re: Speed up package installation by using images instead of archives (like distri)?

Hi! Mekeor Melire skribis: > In contrast, distri downloads the package as an (squashfs) > image. That's it. The image will then be mounted (which is not an > expensive IO operation) as a read-only virtual-file-system. (But as > it's not recommendable to mount as many images as there are installe

Speed up package installation by using images instead of archives (like distri)?

Hello Guix! On the Guix-blog¹, Ludo already mentioned the lightning talk of Michael Stapelberg on the “distri” package manager which installs packages faster than common package managers by an order of magnitude. Common package managers install a package by downloading it as an (compressed)

Re: Installation report

Interesting one. Its nice how far the installer went! On 30.12.20 10:24, Efraim Flashner wrote: (ins)efraim@3900XT ~$ guix environment --ad-hoc neofetch -- neofetch .. `. efraim@3900XT `--..```..` `..```..--` - .-:///-:::. `-:::

Installation report

I finally got all the pieces for my new desktop and went through the Guix System installer (for the first time) and wanted to share how it went. I too got tricked by the ISO being xz compressed and at first wrote that to my USB stick. After fixing that I was back to starting the installer. I have

Re: disable substitutes for grub config and bootloader installation script

Hi, skribis: > rolling back the system shows it's trying to get substitutes for grub.cfg.drv > and install-bootloader.scm.drv: > ``` > itsme@antelope ~> sudo guix system roll-back > Password: > substitute: updating substitutes from 'https://berlin.guixsd.org'... 100.0% > substitute: updating s

disable substitutes for grub config and bootloader installation script

rolling back the system shows it's trying to get substitutes for grub.cfg.drv and install-bootloader.scm.drv: ``` itsme@antelope ~> sudo guix system roll-back Password: substitute: updating substitutes from 'https://berlin.guixsd.org'... 100.0% substitute: updating substitutes from 'https://mirro

Re: ARM bootloader installation in Guix

Hey Danny, I think the buildroot based importer and the genimage based installation are both very good ideas! Combined with the system cross-compilation serie I'm working on, we could turn Guix into a really nice tool to configure, build and deploy images for a lot of boards. I had a

ARM bootloader installation in Guix

Hi, I've been thinking of ways to generalize the bootloader installation for ARM boards. One of the most annoying parts of u-boot is that the u-boot project does NOT include bootloader installers (something like grub-install does not exist in u-boot). A possible upstream project that build

Re: Public key missing for Guix installation script?

On Wed, Feb 13, 2019 at 09:02:46PM -0800, evan.stra...@gmail.com wrote: > Hello, > Tried to post this once before but it got rejected from the mailing > list for some reason. > I'm trying to install GNU Guix using the installation script > (https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gui

Re: Public key missing for Guix installation script?

Hello Evan, please consider that help-g...@gnu.org is more appropriate for this kind of questions :-) evan.stra...@gmail.com writes: [...] > this command: > gpg --keyserver pool.sks-keyservers.net --recv-keys > 3CE464558A84FDC69DB40CFB090B11993D9AEBB5 > > However, upon running that gpg comman

Public key missing for Guix installation script?

Hello, Tried to post this once before but it got rejected from the mailing list for some reason. I'm trying to install GNU Guix using the installation script (https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/plain/etc/guix-install.sh) . Early on, there is a GPG verification step that fails due

Re: ‘nss-certs’ missing in the installation image

Pierre Neidhardt skribis: > From 082f569611a889ef0e852263b5ba23373936b422 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 > From: Pierre Neidhardt > Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2019 15:30:08 +0100 > Subject: [PATCH] install: Add nss-certs to the image. > > * gnu/system/install.scm (installation-os)[packag

Re: ‘nss-certs’ missing in the installation image

None! :) -- Pierre Neidhardt https://ambrevar.xyz/ signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: ‘nss-certs’ missing in the installation image

Pierre Neidhardt skribis: >> I’m not sure it belongs in “System Installation”. After all, it’s >> already under “System Configuration” and in several OS config examples. > > Here the issue is not with system configuration, but with the live install > image. Oh OK. For the

Re: ‘nss-certs’ missing in the installation image

software and tools that may be needed. +If you require web access over HTTPS with tools such as @command{wget} or +@command{git}, see @xref{X.509 Certificates} for details on how to set up the +certificates. + @cindex installing over SSH If you want to, you can continue the installation remotely by

Re: ‘nss-certs’ missing in the installation image

> Any other opinion? I’d personally prefer if nss-certs were already available during installation; but if not, having a link in “System Installation” to instructions on how to safely install and set it up seems like a fair compromise. My 2¢.

Re: ‘nss-certs’ missing in the installation image

Hi On 2019-01-23 12:22, Pierre Neidhardt wrote: I’m not sure it belongs in “System Installation”. After all, it’s already under “System Configuration” and in several OS config examples. Here the issue is not with system configuration, but with the live install image. In this sense, I'

Re: ‘nss-certs’ missing in the installation image

Pierre Neidhardt skribis: > Indeed, it's all in the X.509 section. My problem is that it's not mentioned > in > "6.1 System Installation". > > I'll add a link to the X.509 node if no one disagrees. I’m not sure it belongs in “System Installation”

Re: ‘nss-certs’ missing in the installation image

Indeed, it's all in the X.509 section. My problem is that it's not mentioned in "6.1 System Installation". I'll add a link to the X.509 node if no one disagrees. -- Pierre Neidhardt https://ambrevar.xyz/ signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: ‘nss-certs’ missing in the installation image

Hi Pierre, Pierre Neidhardt writes: > What's the procedure to install nss-certs then? > Will a simple `guix package -i nss-certs` do? no, a number of environment variables need to be defined, depending on applications > I think we should document this in the installation man

‘nss-certs’ missing in the installation image

ere---end--->8--- >> >> but the install image only has a /etc/ssl file. > > Is this broken or intentional? Can you point me at where this is defined? ‘nss-certs’ is intentionally not in %base-packages nor in the installation image. The rationale

Re: ‘nss-certs’ missing in the installation image

What's the procedure to install nss-certs then? Will a simple `guix package -i nss-certs` do? I think we should document this in the installation manual. > Someone following the normal installation procedure shouldn’t need those > certificates though. WDYT? HTTPS access is a fa

Re: improve installation instructions

Ludovic Courtès writes: >> What do you think about mentioning the script in the Installation >> section and only asking users to look in the subsections for details? > > Good idea. > >> +We recommend the use of this >> +@uref{https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/g

Re: improve installation instructions

ssing – as a user I skipped over the > introduction and went straight to step 1, right past the script. > > What do you think about mentioning the script in the Installation > section and only asking users to look in the subsections for details? Good idea. > +We recommend the

Re: improve installation instructions

in passing – as a user I skipped over the > introduction and went straight to step 1, right past the script. I've installed Guix on a foreign distro a few times and didn't realize that that script existed, so I must have skipped past it each time. > What do you think about mention

Re: improve installation instructions

ut > the manual mentions it only in passing – as a user I skipped over the > introduction and went straight to step 1, right past the script. > > What do you think about mentioning the script in the Installation > section and only asking users to look in the subsections for details? >

improve installation instructions

and went straight to step 1, right past the script. What do you think about mentioning the script in the Installation section and only asking users to look in the subsections for details? Here’s a draft patch: --8<---cut here---start->8--- diff --git

Re: qemu command line for installation

h the installation - i amost remember all the steps without having to take a look at the documentation - just adding more memory and using desktop.scm template, just changing username, timezone, and bootloader , and see what happens. Regards, Laura

Re: qemu command line for installation

Thank you a lot Gabor :) Yesterday I did not see that time went by and had to go out and rush without mentioning it on IRC channel and felt ashamed of that, because everyone was helping me. But when I arrived back, I copied the conversation in a text file to read it in detail today. I guess that

qemu command line for installation

Hello Laura, I've tried to reproduce the issues you mentioned locally, and to be honest with success :) Issue 1: /dev/sda already partitioned: The order of options on the command line made the installer image /dev/sda, and it is really partitioned. I avoided it using explicit mapping of drives o

Re: [Post Installation]: Unable to guix pull

Thanks for the response. When I noticed that hydra.gnu.org was down I used https://berlin.guixsd.org/ (as mentioned in the substitute page). However, guix was still building everything from source and not fetching the binaries. Although I had not validated the key for this website. Could that be th

Re: [Post Installation]: Unable to guix pull

For new users I think we ought to authorize and access these servers by default. I know this was shot down before, but there really is no reason not to. When you install guix you implicitely decide to trust its servers. I know no one who does not want to install the keys. I.e., everyone needs th

Re: [Post Installation]: Unable to guix pull

Alex Vong writes: > Hello, > > Yes, hydra is currently off-line for maintainence. You can find the > relevant thread here[0]. It was suggested to use > 'https://berlin.guixsd.org' as the primary source of substitutes. > > For examples, I add the following option to 'guix-daemon.service': > --su

Re: [Post Installation]: Unable to guix pull

Hello, Yes, hydra is currently off-line for maintainence. You can find the relevant thread here[0]. It was suggested to use 'https://berlin.guixsd.org' as the primary source of substitutes. For examples, I add the following option to 'guix-daemon.service': --substitute-urls='https://berlin.guix

[Post Installation]: Unable to guix pull

Hi, After installing the guix on my ubuntu workstation. I am finding the following error when trying to install guix-locales. Apparently, the https://mirror.hydra.gnu.org returns 504 . I am not sure if the server is down or something else is wrong. #+begin_log substitute: guix substitute: warning

Re: Help required for installation of GUIX

: > Hello Lakshmi, > > Lakshmi Prasannakumar ezt írta > (időpont: 2018. okt. 18., Cs, 16:27): > > > > Hi, > > > > While trying to install GUIX using Binary installation, I'm getting the > following error at verifying sig file using the below command. > >

Re: Help required for installation of GUIX

Hello Lakshmi, Lakshmi Prasannakumar ezt írta (időpont: 2018. okt. 18., Cs, 16:27): > > Hi, > > While trying to install GUIX using Binary installation, I'm getting the > following error at verifying sig file using the below command. > > $ sudo gpg --verify

Help required for installation of GUIX

Hi, While trying to install GUIX using Binary installation, I'm getting the following error at verifying sig file using the below command. $ sudo gpg --verify guix-binary-0.15.0.x86_64-linux.tar.xz.sig *gpg: WARNING: unsafe ownership on homedir '/home/lakshmi/.gnupg

Re: Installation-Protocol for GuixSD x86_64 v0.15-preview

On Tue, 03 Jul 2018 23:42:28 +0200 l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) wrote: [..] > Did you have troubles with substitutes? In particular, did it hang as > described in ? (I’m still experiencing it > occasionally and I can’t believe I’m the only one.) No. But it looks li

Re: Installation-Protocol for GuixSD x86_64 v0.15-preview

Hi Tobias, On Tue, 03 Jul 2018 12:49:12 +0200 Tobias Geerinckx-Rice wrote: > Hullo Bjrn, > > Björn Höfling wrote: > > Hi people, > > > > as Ludo "requested", today I freshly installed GuixSD in a QEMU > > environment (x86_64 on both host and virtual

Re: Installation-Protocol for GuixSD x86_64 v0.15-preview

Hi Björn, Björn Höfling skribis: > as Ludo "requested", today I freshly installed GuixSD in a QEMU > environment (x86_64 on both host and virtual env) to check the > installation process of the upcoming release. > > Overall result: Yes, it worked, no big trouble

Re: Installation-Protocol for GuixSD x86_64 v0.15-preview

Hey Danny, Danny Milosavljevic skribis: > After this release, let's integrate an installer. > > wip-installer-2 works fine. The architecture could be more generic (it has > peculiar ideas about how any installer screen MUST look), but it's not bad > or anything. Also, the wizard leaves somethi

Re: Installation-Protocol for GuixSD x86_64 v0.15-preview

Hi Björn, thanks for testing it! On Tue, 3 Jul 2018 10:15:53 +0200 Björn Höfling wrote: > 2) The welcome screen with installation instructions is a bit > cluttered. I had in mind that Danny already worked on this? Only for the serial tty init. But it might be similar here too, I don&

Re: Installation-Protocol for GuixSD x86_64 v0.15-preview

e this guix-0.14.0-12.77a1aac from one month ago? After a > fresh installation, I want the newest Guix! The issue here is that the installation media has no ~/.config/guix/current: it uses the "snapshot" Guix, from (gnu packages package-management). Which in turn installs an even o

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