From: Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>
To: 65412@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#65412: Guix installer failed to install
Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2023 18:02:51 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3890128.2RXx4rv9zb@nimes> (raw)
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Hi,
My attempt to install Guix 1.4.0 in a VM failed, shortly after a message:
guix system: warning: at least 6,035.5 MB needed but only 1,079.3 MB available in /mnt
The steps that I did are below. Data was uploaded as
installer-dump-2cf3425e.
The problem is not so much that it failed, but that the warning
message does not sufficiently describe the cause:
* I understand the figure of 6 GB: that's the expected size for
a GUI environment with MATE.
* But I don't understand the figure of 1 GB.
- Is /mnt a RAM disk (the VM has 2 GB of RAM), or did the installer fail
to mount /mnt?
- Or is /mnt overloaded to the swap partition (which has 1 GB in my config)?
- Or is /mnt the 10 GB partition of my disk, and the downloaded binaries
already filled 9 GB of it?
If I knew this, I would know what to do to fix the problem: Add more RAM?
Partition differently? Use a larger main partition?
Best regards.
Bruno
========================= What I did =========================
Download: guix-system-install-1.4.0.x86_64-linux.iso
Disk size: 10 GB
Language: English.
Territory: United States.
Graphical install.
Timezone: Europe/Berlin
Keyboard: English (US)
Hostname: guix14
Root password: ********
Add user:
User: bruno
Full name: Bruno Haible
Home directory: /home/bruno
Password: ********
Desktop environment: MATE + ExWM
Enable OpenSSH daemon.
Partitioning: Guided. gpt. One partition.
Delete partitions 2 and 3.
Create new partitions:
9.7 GB ext4 /
1035 MB linux-swap
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next reply other threads:[~2023-08-21 6:55 UTC|newest]
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2023-08-20 16:02 Bruno Haible [this message]
2023-08-22 9:08 ` bug#65412: Guix installer failed to install Josselin Poiret via Bug reports for GNU Guix
2023-09-02 11:55 ` Bruno Haible
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