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From: Eric Brown <ecbrown@ericcbrown.com>
To: bo0od <bo0od@riseup.net>
Cc: 47630@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#47630: Improve guix manual installation docs
Date: Tue, 08 Jun 2021 12:48:42 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wnr4s0w5.fsf@ericcbrown.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2b1e7af8-40bc-1603-3cdf-e40dcaff9f98@riseup.net> (bo0od@riseup.net's message of "Wed, 7 Apr 2021 04:55:25 +0000")

bo0od <bo0od@riseup.net> writes:

> Hi There,
>
> Checking here:
>
> https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/Manual-Installation.html
>
> This section actually misses alot of commands and its not nice to give
> only hint commands and leave step by step explanation e.g:
>
> https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/Keyboard-Layout-and-Networking-and-Partitioning.html
>
> "parted /dev/sda set 1 esp on"
>
> This command wont work without labeling the partition "parted /dev/sda
> -- mklabel gpt" and so on..
>
> This mean user cant copy and paste he need to figure out the errors
> while hes follow the documentation because it doesn't give to the user 
> the full picture.
>
> I suggest to take a look at NixOS docs which goes step by step without
> jumping any necessary one:
>
> https://nixos.org/manual/nixos/stable/index.html#sec-installation-partitioning
>
> (Unclear documentation causes unsolvable or ambiguous questions from
> users and its troublesome to the support team to re-add the missing 
> parts of the docs in their support.(Assuming they figured out where is
> the issue user is falling in.))
>
> ThX!

If you would have rolled your suggestions into a patch, then your
support team would not have to keep re-implementing it.





  reply	other threads:[~2021-06-08 17:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-04-07  4:55 bug#47630: Improve guix manual installation docs bo0od
2021-06-08 17:48 ` Eric Brown [this message]
2021-07-02 16:47 ` zimoun
2021-07-15 12:56   ` bo0od
2021-08-17 21:28     ` zimoun
2021-09-14 10:35       ` zimoun
2021-09-14 14:50         ` bo0od
2021-09-14 15:41           ` zimoun
2021-09-26  8:17             ` bo0od
2022-01-04 22:53               ` zimoun
2022-06-23  9:52                 ` zimoun
2022-06-24 10:25                   ` bo0od

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