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Re: feedback as solicited by Guix manual (Section 7.1.5)
From: |
Ludovic Courtès |
Subject: |
Re: feedback as solicited by Guix manual (Section 7.1.5) |
Date: |
Tue, 31 May 2016 18:19:45 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (gnu/linux) |
Hi!
Ethan Stefan Day <address@hidden> skribis:
> 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:
>
> "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..."
Hmm, I wonder how this happened… but glad you worked around it!
> 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).
Thanks a lot for your feedback, even more so that it feels rather
positive! ;-)
Ludo’.
Re: feedback as solicited by Guix manual (Section 7.1.5),
Ludovic Courtès <=