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Re: feedback as solicited by Guix manual (Section 7.1.5)
From: |
Leo Famulari |
Subject: |
Re: feedback as solicited by Guix manual (Section 7.1.5) |
Date: |
Tue, 31 May 2016 11:58:54 -0400 |
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Mutt/1.6.0 (2016-04-01) |
On Sun, May 29, 2016 at 08:45:18PM -0400, Ethan Stefan Day wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I just got finished setting up GuixSD on one of these
> <https://www.thinkpenguin.com/gnu-linux/penguin-adelie-gnu-linux-laptop>, to
> use as a fun/hacking box. I hit a bump with partitioning the drive, but
> managed to figure it out. The Guix manual refers to the Parted manual
> for an overview of partitioning, but the Parted manual no longer
> provides that and instead references some other manual without providing
> a link. It was rather comical:
I found some instructions in the Parted manual, specifically in section
2: Using Parted. If that wasn't helpful, do you think we should link to
manuals for fdisk or cfdisk also or instead?
>
> "Error, no bios_grub partition. Grub not installed."
> "Oh, well I made the root drive bootable. Lets just reboot and see what
> happens."
> ...
> "BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP..."
>
> I am running Gnome, and aside from video tearing and Icecat not
> appearing in the activities view, things seem to be working fine. I'll
> be looking for ways to contribute once I have a better understanding of
> the system. Thanks for putting this together, and a particular thanks
> to whoever packaged GHC (I have read that bootstrapping it can be tricky).
>
> -Ethan Day
>
Re: feedback as solicited by Guix manual (Section 7.1.5), Ludovic Courtès, 2016/05/31