Re: graphical installer

2020-02-04 Thread zimoun
On Tue, 4 Feb 2020 at 13:47, Julien Lepiller wrote: > > Le 4 février 2020 07:26:46 GMT-05:00, Efraim Flashner > a écrit : > >On Tue, Feb 04, 2020 at 12:46:27PM +0100, zimoun wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> On Tue, 4 Feb 2020 at 12:36, ng0 wrote: > >> > >> > a territory "Other" or just any continent a

Re: graphical installer

2020-02-04 Thread Julien Lepiller
Le 4 février 2020 07:26:46 GMT-05:00, Efraim Flashner a écrit : >On Tue, Feb 04, 2020 at 12:46:27PM +0100, zimoun wrote: >> Hi, >> >> On Tue, 4 Feb 2020 at 12:36, ng0 wrote: >> >> > a territory "Other" or just any continent and country combination >> > (in the Locale step). >> > My motivation

Re: graphical installer

2020-02-04 Thread Efraim Flashner
On Tue, Feb 04, 2020 at 12:46:27PM +0100, zimoun wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, 4 Feb 2020 at 12:36, ng0 wrote: > > > a territory "Other" or just any continent and country combination > > (in the Locale step). > > My motivation is that I usually have an en_US.UTF-8 locale in > > Germany. I don't think

Re: graphical installer

2020-02-04 Thread zimoun
Hi, On Tue, 4 Feb 2020 at 12:36, ng0 wrote: > a territory "Other" or just any continent and country combination > (in the Locale step). > My motivation is that I usually have an en_US.UTF-8 locale in > Germany. I don't think it's a common case, but I think I'm not > a special exception. I have

Re: graphical installer

2020-02-04 Thread ng0
In the end it doesn't matter because this is just semantics and temporary irritation when you see it for the first time. Other systems handle this differently in their installer.

Re: Graphical Installer - Call for Testing.

2017-07-17 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Danny Milosavljevic skribis: > Hi Ludo, > >> Yes. At the REPL, you can do: >> >> ,use(guix) >> ,run-in-store (system-disk-image installation-os) > > I tried: > > ,use (gnu system vm) > ,use (gnu system install) > ,use (guix) > ,run-in-store (system-disk-image installation-os) > (derivation-

Re: Graphical Installer - Call for Testing.

2017-07-12 Thread Danny Milosavljevic
> Also, what do you think of us providing a "guix system" command for this? guix system disk-image -t iso9660 gnu/system/install.scm Adapted for my purposes, from the manual :)

Re: Graphical Installer - Call for Testing.

2017-07-12 Thread Danny Milosavljevic
Hi Ludo, > Yes. At the REPL, you can do: > > ,use(guix) > ,run-in-store (system-disk-image installation-os) I tried: ,use (gnu system vm) ,use (gnu system install) ,use (guix) ,run-in-store (system-disk-image installation-os) (derivation->output-path $3) and get $3 = # /gnu/store/pjrkpn

Re: Graphical Installer - Call for Testing.

2017-07-07 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Danny Milosavljevic skribis: > Hydra does (system-disk-image installation-os > #:disk-image-size > (* 1024 MiB). > > Try doing the same in the Guile interpreter, like so: > > guile -L . > ,use (gnu system vm)

Re: Graphical Installer - Call for Testing.

2017-07-06 Thread Danny Milosavljevic
Hi, On Thu, 06 Jul 2017 21:48:47 -0700 Chris Marusich wrote: > Is the wip-installer-2 branch the one I should test with now? Yes, if you want :) > What's the difference between the wip-installer and > wip-installer-2 branches? I didn't want to fuck up the wip-installer branch so I created a

Re: Graphical Installer - Call for Testing.

2017-07-06 Thread Chris Marusich
Hi Danny, Wow! I just looked, and I see that a lot of changes have been made since January. Is the wip-installer-2 branch the one I should test with now? What's the difference between the wip-installer and wip-installer-2 branches? What steps should I take to create a disk image with the insta

Re: Graphical Installer - Call for Testing.

2017-07-05 Thread Danny Milosavljevic
Hi, > * Left-clicking on buttons, entries, etc. had no effect. I expected it > to be equivalent to pressing enter or space. I've implemented this for most things now (except for the status bar at the bottom). > * Left-clicking leaves the clicked square (i.e., row+column > intersection) hig

Re: Graphical Installer - Call for Testing.

2017-01-22 Thread John Darrington
It now supports btrfs. Feel free to give it a whirl. J' On Sat, Jan 14, 2017 at 02:24:53PM +0100, David Craven wrote: Hi John, I looked at adding btrfs support, -- Avoid eavesdropping. Send strong encrypted email. PGP Public key ID: 1024D/2DE827B3 fingerprint = 8797 A26D

Re: Graphical Installer - Call for Testing.

2017-01-18 Thread Chris Marusich
John Darrington writes: > On Sun, Jan 15, 2017 at 01:20:56AM -0800, Chris Marusich wrote: > John Darrington writes: > > > * It would be great if you could try to find out why your wireless > failed. > > I'll look into it. FWIW, the following DOES work for setting up

Re: Graphical Installer - Call for Testing.

2017-01-16 Thread John Darrington
On Sun, Jan 15, 2017 at 01:20:56AM -0800, Chris Marusich wrote: John Darrington writes: > * It would be great if you could try to find out why your wireless failed. I'll look into it. FWIW, the following DOES work for setting up my wireless from the (usual release

Re: Graphical Installer - Call for Testing.

2017-01-16 Thread John Darrington
On Mon, Jan 16, 2017 at 10:34:02AM +0100, Ludovic Court??s wrote: Hi! Regarding networking, would it make sense to use Connman (or NetworkManger? or Wicd?) and simply talk to it? I???ve never used it but it seems that Connman is a good middle ground. We can send

Re: Graphical Installer - Call for Testing.

2017-01-16 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi! Regarding networking, would it make sense to use Connman (or NetworkManger? or Wicd?) and simply talk to it? I’ve never used it but it seems that Connman is a good middle ground. We can send it RPCs I think, and it then takes care of all the plumbing, so I suppose that would simplify the user

Re: Graphical Installer - Call for Testing.

2017-01-15 Thread John Darrington
On Sun, Jan 15, 2017 at 01:20:56AM -0800, Chris Marusich wrote: --8<---cut here---start->8--- config_file="$(mktemp --tmpdir wireless-X.cfg)" trap "rm -f $config_file" EXIT cat > "$config_file" << EOM network={ ssid="my

Re: Graphical Installer - Call for Testing.

2017-01-15 Thread Chris Marusich
John Darrington writes: > Hi Chris, > > Thanks for this very comprehensive feedback. I hope you will forgive > me if I don't respond to every point you have raised. I have however read > them all, and they are all relevant and useful. So thanks very much. My pleasure! It's easy to give feedb

Re: Graphical Installer - Call for Testing.

2017-01-14 Thread John Darrington
Hi Chris, Thanks for this very comprehensive feedback. I hope you will forgive me if I don't respond to every point you have raised. I have however read them all, and they are all relevant and useful. So thanks very much. Some particular points however: * Currently there is no mouse support a

Re: Graphical Installer - Call for Testing.

2017-01-14 Thread Chris Marusich
John Darrington writes: > On Thu, Jan 12, 2017 at 09:40:17PM -0800, Chris Marusich wrote: > John Darrington writes: > > > The wip-installer branch is ready for testing and general review. > > > > This branch provides a curses based graphical interface to the disk >

Re: Graphical Installer - Call for Testing.

2017-01-14 Thread David Craven
Hi John, I looked at adding btrfs support, and noticed that there was a lot of trailing white space. Please remove trailing whitespace before pushing... Looks really nice! David

Re: Graphical Installer - Call for Testing.

2017-01-12 Thread Chris Marusich
John Darrington writes: > On Thu, Jan 12, 2017 at 09:40:17PM -0800, Chris Marusich wrote: > John Darrington writes: > > > The wip-installer branch is ready for testing and general review. > > > > This branch provides a curses based graphical interface to the disk >

Re: Graphical Installer - Call for Testing.

2017-01-12 Thread John Darrington
On Thu, Jan 12, 2017 at 09:40:17PM -0800, Chris Marusich wrote: John Darrington writes: > The wip-installer branch is ready for testing and general review. > > This branch provides a curses based graphical interface to the disk > images used for installing GuixSD. It

Re: Graphical Installer - Call for Testing.

2017-01-12 Thread Chris Marusich
John Darrington writes: > The wip-installer branch is ready for testing and general review. > > This branch provides a curses based graphical interface to the disk > images used for installing GuixSD. It is intended to allow users > unfamiliar with bash and other aspects of unix-like operating sy

Re: Graphical Installer - Call for Testing.

2017-01-10 Thread John Darrington
On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 09:39:01AM +0100, Ludovic Court??s wrote: John Darrington skribis: > On Sun, Jan 08, 2017 at 11:34:26PM +0100, Ludovic Court??s wrote: [...] >2. Pressing F9 (language) replaces lines with funny characters (???herd >

Re: Graphical Installer - Call for Testing.

2017-01-10 Thread Ludovic Courtès
John Darrington skribis: > On Sun, Jan 08, 2017 at 11:34:26PM +0100, Ludovic Court??s wrote: [...] >2. Pressing F9 (language) replaces lines with funny characters (???herd > restart term-tty1??? fixes it, so to speak). > > I think this is because glibc-locales is not part of t

Re: Graphical Installer - Call for Testing.

2017-01-09 Thread John Darrington
On Sun, Jan 08, 2017 at 11:34:26PM +0100, Ludovic Court??s wrote: I did a quick test and I think it???s pretty cool. :-) Thanks. A few issues I noticed: 1. ???Go Back??? often doesn???t go back (for instance from the ???Choose the mount point for devi

Re: Graphical Installer - Call for Testing.

2017-01-08 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi! I did a quick test and I think it’s pretty cool. :-) A few issues I noticed: 1. “Go Back” often doesn’t go back (for instance from the “Choose the mount point for device” screen). 2. Pressing F9 (language) replaces lines with funny characters (“herd restart term-tty1” fixes i

Re: Graphical Installer - Call for Testing.

2017-01-08 Thread John Darrington
Zile is the emacs clone that the disk-image comes with by default. J' On Sun, Jan 08, 2017 at 07:47:56PM +0100, Taylan Ulrich Bay??rl??/Kammer wrote: myglc2 writes: > On 01/06/2017 at 21:50 John Darrington writes: > >> 3) install emacs? >> >> I would be re

Re: Graphical Installer - Call for Testing.

2017-01-08 Thread Taylan Ulrich Bayırlı/Kammer
myglc2 writes: > On 01/06/2017 at 21:50 John Darrington writes: > >> 3) install emacs? >> >> I would be reluctant to do that by default: >> >> Firstly it's a slippery slope. The next person will say "No! install vi! or >> nano, or ". >> >> Secondly, I think the intended way for Guix to

Re: Graphical Installer - Call for Testing.

2017-01-07 Thread Alex Kost
myglc2 (2017-01-06 23:55 -0500) wrote: [...] > (packages >(cons* > glibc-utf8-locales > gnu-make > parted > mdadm > guix > cups > qemu > screen > openssh nss-certs xauth > rsync wget > git > gs-fonts font-dejavu font-gnu-freefont-ttf > aspe

Re: Graphical Installer - Call for Testing.

2017-01-07 Thread Christopher Allan Webber
Thompson, David writes: > Hi John, > > On Wed, Jan 4, 2017 at 2:59 AM, John Darrington > wrote: >> The wip-installer branch is ready for testing and general review. >> >> This branch provides a curses based graphical interface to the disk >> images used for installing GuixSD. It is intended to al

Re: Graphical Installer - Call for Testing.

2017-01-07 Thread John Darrington
On Fri, Jan 06, 2017 at 09:18:39PM -0500, myglc2 wrote: > 1) Add a user configuration menu/form? > > That should be fairly straightforward. But I wonder if it wouldn't be easier for > people to add them after the system is installed and run guix system > reconfigure

Re: Graphical Installer - Call for Testing.

2017-01-06 Thread myglc2
Oops, herewith the attachment for previous email. > In my case I want emacs, so I put emacs in my system configs. Another rationale for installing emacs in the system config is the very nice emacs-guix tools for package search and config management. It seems to me that emacs could also be used t

Re: Graphical Installer - Call for Testing.

2017-01-06 Thread myglc2
On 01/06/2017 at 21:50 John Darrington writes: > Thanks for taking the time to do this. > > On Fri, Jan 07, 2017 at 03:53:17PM -0500, myglc2 wrote: > > This is looking really great! I tried ... > > > http://web.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/software/guix/guixsd-graphical-installer-x86-6

Re: Graphical Installer - Call for Testing.

2017-01-06 Thread John Darrington
Thanks for taking the time to do this. On Fri, Jan 07, 2017 at 03:53:17PM -0500, myglc2 wrote: This is looking really great! I tried ... http://web.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/software/guix/guixsd-graphical-installer-x86-64-linux ... on the headless server where I run GuixSD

Re: Graphical Installer - Call for Testing.

2017-01-06 Thread myglc2
On 01/04/2017 at 08:59 John Darrington writes: > The wip-installer branch is ready for testing and general review. This is looking really great! I tried ... http://web.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/software/guix/guixsd-graphical-installer-x86-64-linux ... on the headless server where I run GuixSD. I experie

Re: Graphical Installer - Call for Testing.

2017-01-05 Thread Thompson, David
Hi John, On Wed, Jan 4, 2017 at 2:59 AM, John Darrington wrote: > The wip-installer branch is ready for testing and general review. > > This branch provides a curses based graphical interface to the disk > images used for installing GuixSD. It is intended to allow users > unfamiliar with bash and

Re: Graphical Installer - Call for Testing.

2017-01-04 Thread John Darrington
On Wed, Jan 04, 2017 at 07:54:36AM -0800, dian_ce...@zoho.com wrote: I just wanted to say I hope this isn't going to be the only install option in the future. That is not for me to say, but FWIW I agree. While I haven't tested this patch, I do want to say that I'd rather th

Re: Graphical Installer - Call for Testing.

2017-01-04 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
dian_ce...@zoho.com writes: > On Wed, Jan 04, 2017 at 08:59:28AM +0100, John Darrington wrote: >> This branch provides a curses based graphical interface to the disk >> images used for installing GuixSD. It is intended to allow users >> unfamiliar with bash and other aspects of unix-like operatin

Re: Graphical Installer - Call for Testing.

2017-01-04 Thread dian_cecht
On Wed, Jan 04, 2017 at 08:59:28AM +0100, John Darrington wrote: > This branch provides a curses based graphical interface to the disk > images used for installing GuixSD. It is intended to allow users > unfamiliar with bash and other aspects of unix-like operating systems > to easily install GuixS

Re: Graphical Installer - Call for Testing.

2017-01-04 Thread Thomas Danckaert
From: John Darrington Subject: Graphical Installer - Call for Testing. Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2017 08:59:28 +0100 The wip-installer branch is ready for testing and general review. This branch provides a curses based graphical interface to the disk images used for installing GuixSD. It is intended to