From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: John Darrington Subject: Re: Graphical Installer - Call for Testing. Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2017 22:50:24 +0100 Message-ID: <20170106215024.GA32389@jocasta.intra> References: <20170104075928.GA23509@jocasta.intra> <867f67lxky.fsf@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="qDbXVdCdHGoSgWSk" Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:37149) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cPcPC-0001PV-Jm for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Jan 2017 16:50:35 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cPcP8-000831-Kp for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Jan 2017 16:50:34 -0500 Received: from de.cellform.com ([88.217.224.109]:55362 helo=jocasta.intra) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cPcP8-000823-7H for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Jan 2017 16:50:30 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <867f67lxky.fsf@gmail.com> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: myglc2 Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org --qDbXVdCdHGoSgWSk Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Thanks for taking the time to do this. On Fri, Jan 07, 2017 at 03:53:17PM -0500, myglc2 wrote: =20 This is looking really great! I tried ... =20 http://web.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/software/guix/guixsd-graphical-installer-x= 86-64-linux =20 ... on the headless server where I run GuixSD. I experienced these iss= ues: =20 ATTEMPT 1 =20 I started with a previously partitioned disk. I selected the 'Headless server' option. I did not modify the config. The install completed w/o errors. WOW! After restarting, I logged in to root and looked around. I was a bit disappointed that no default user was created. So I figured I needed to edit the config.scm file. But I didn't see it in /etc where I hoped it would be.=20 =20 Odd! It should have been there. I wonder what went wrong? Suggestions: =20 1) Add a user configuration menu/form? That should be fairly straightforward. But I wonder if it wouldn't be easi= er for people to add them after the system is installed and run guix system reconf= igure ? 2) save the config file in an obvious place? I will have to find out what went wrong and fix it. 3) install emacs? I would be reluctant to do that by default: Firstly it's a slippery slope. The next person will say "No! install vi! o= r nano, or ....". Secondly, I think the intended way for Guix to be configured is to have=20 the system profile relatively sparse. Editors belong in the user profiles. Perhaps we could add a page which would allow users to add arbitrary packag= es to the system profile. =20 ATTEMPT 2 =20 This time I tried to set up the HD from scratch. I successfully deleted old partitions and created new partitions. It was not clear how much I needed to know (e.g., do I need to mark a partition bootable?) Since I'm currently just execing cfdisk, I don't have much control over th= at. But=20 hopefully there's be some nice Guile bindings for parted soon ... =20 Then I got stuck in "Allocate disk partitions". I could enter a '/' mount point. I could 're-create' the file system. 'Continue' took me back to "select a partition". But I couldn't figure out how to get back to the main menu/form to continue the installation. I guess 'Go-Back' is supposed to do this, but it was a noop for me. It's clear that this part of the user interface needs work to make it simpl= er and more intuitive. Thanks again for the feedback. J' =20 =20 --=20 Avoid eavesdropping. Send strong encrypted email. PGP Public key ID: 1024D/2DE827B3=20 fingerprint =3D 8797 A26D 0854 2EAB 0285 A290 8A67 719C 2DE8 27B3 See http://sks-keyservers.net or any PGP keyserver for public key. --qDbXVdCdHGoSgWSk Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iEYEARECAAYFAlhwESAACgkQimdxnC3oJ7OVYACePhHUjGbflSGDvaRWgJ1ZLOQ8 REYAn2brfFwQWRiJvWjLHfsNCMESPaTo =QNy6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --qDbXVdCdHGoSgWSk--