From: Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me@tobias.gr>
To: dannym@scratchpost.org
Cc: 27735@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#27735: Unbootable images with GuixSD on... "GuixSD"
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2017 20:12:50 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8a8ece74-7035-9893-f62b-875cae3cfd7a@tobias.gr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170717191731.2d3ad604@scratchpost.org>
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On 17/07/17 19:17, Danny Milosavljevic wrote:> Hi T G-R,
> Yeah, that was me. I don't understand how an actual operating system
> on a drive is an image. Maybe I'm old-fashioned, dunno, but I think
> an image is something that is made up by light rays on a screen, not
> the real object. In the case of computing an image is a backup file
> of a drive, not what is on the drive to begin with.
>
> Also, even if it were an image, the image shouldn't say "<foo> image"
> in the image itself. A mirror which doesn't add anything to your
> image when you look into it, either :)
I agree completely. I've become so used to dd'ing ISOs to USB drives
that I've come to think *only* in terms of fake discs, but you're right.
I chose ‘image’ reluctantly, because my first ideas (‘installer’, ‘vm’)
were even less relevant: this label's used for all disc images. Oh well.
We could choose the worst and ugliest label possible: that'd compel
someone to fix this!
(No. "GuixSD_image" it is.)
Thanks,
T G-R
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-07-17 18:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-07-17 14:40 bug#27735: Unbootable images with GuixSD on... "GuixSD" Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
2017-07-17 14:51 ` bug#27735: [PATCH 1/2] build, vm: Use a slightly less generic label Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
2017-07-17 17:20 ` Danny Milosavljevic
2017-07-17 17:58 ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
2017-07-18 10:09 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-07-18 12:30 ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
2017-07-18 13:48 ` Danny Milosavljevic
2017-07-17 17:17 ` bug#27735: Unbootable images with GuixSD on... "GuixSD" Danny Milosavljevic
2017-07-17 18:12 ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice [this message]
2017-07-17 18:37 ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
2017-07-18 11:49 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-07-18 15:09 ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
2017-07-18 18:59 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-07-18 20:42 ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
2017-07-19 19:11 ` Danny Milosavljevic
2017-07-19 22:32 ` bug#27735: Lookup by UUID Ludovic Courtès
2017-07-20 17:38 ` Danny Milosavljevic
2017-07-20 20:32 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-07-20 21:51 ` Danny Milosavljevic
2017-08-05 17:50 ` Danny Milosavljevic
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