From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tobias Geerinckx-Rice Subject: bug#35759: [Manual installation] =?UTF-8?Q?=E2=80=98mount_?= =?UTF-8?Q?/mnt=E2=80=99's?= in the =?UTF-8?Q?=E2=80=98Partitioning=E2=80=99?= section. Date: Thu, 16 May 2019 03:54:10 +0200 Message-ID: <87woirgo59.fsf@nckx> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="=-=-="; micalg=pgp-sha512; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:58455) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hR5br-0003Oq-PO for bug-guix@gnu.org; Wed, 15 May 2019 21:55:04 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hR5bq-0002wh-P7 for bug-guix@gnu.org; Wed, 15 May 2019 21:55:03 -0400 Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:40255) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hR5bq-0002wS-MJ for bug-guix@gnu.org; Wed, 15 May 2019 21:55:02 -0400 Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hR5bq-0002SG-GU for bug-guix@gnu.org; Wed, 15 May 2019 21:55:02 -0400 Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-Message-ID: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:58389) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hR5bD-0003MA-H8 for bug-guix@gnu.org; Wed, 15 May 2019 21:54:24 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hR5bC-0002ak-33 for bug-guix@gnu.org; Wed, 15 May 2019 21:54:23 -0400 Received: from tobias.gr ([2001:470:7405::1]:35804) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hR5bB-0002YK-Hu for bug-guix@gnu.org; Wed, 15 May 2019 21:54:22 -0400 Received: by tobias.gr (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTP id 8c70f199 for ; Thu, 16 May 2019 01:54:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: by submission.tobias.gr (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTPSA id 8a277420 (TLSv1.2:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:256:NO) for ; Thu, 16 May 2019 01:54:12 +0000 (UTC) List-Id: Bug reports for GNU Guix List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-guix-bounces+gcggb-bug-guix=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "bug-Guix" To: 35759@debbugs.gnu.org --=-=-= Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Guix, [This is for after 1.0.1, but I'd forget otherwise.] This happened to a new user on IRC tonight, and I understand their=20 logic. After guided partitioning (using the installer),=20 installation failed, and they decided to continue manually.=20 Here's where they started: 3.6 Manual Installation =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D =E2=80=A6 * Menu: * Keyboard Layout and Networking and Partitioning:: Initial=20 setup. * Proceeding with the Installation:: Installing. Having just =E2=80=98partitioned=E2=80=99, they =E2=80=98proceeded=E2=80=99= . The first task in=20 that section is =E2=80=98herd start cow-store=E2=80=99, which fails because= /mnt=20 isn't mounted yet. According to our manual, that's also part of=20 =E2=80=98partitioning=E2=80=99. Eh. I get why, but would prefer to reorga= nise=20 this a bit to make such errors less likely. Kind regards, T G-R --=-=-= Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iHUEARYKAB0WIQT12iAyS4c9C3o4dnINsP+IT1VteQUCXNzCwgAKCRANsP+IT1Vt eYpaAQC8cqxNhQyx87VjbKFEDKOTJRL15FQwoDXj3QlXFmD23wD/YMBYzj0nQf9M w6Nu03bBxf7tgSAhfzWHKvBLM/9JUwE= =Ic5g -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-=-=--