From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: John Darrington Subject: Re: Graphical Installer - Call for Testing. Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2017 07:35:11 +0100 Message-ID: <20170113063511.GA18383@jocasta.intra> References: <20170104075928.GA23509@jocasta.intra> <87eg07cybi.fsf@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="opJtzjQTFsWo+cga" Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:54304) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cRvSN-00043J-W5 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 13 Jan 2017 01:35:25 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cRvSK-0004oX-3j for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 13 Jan 2017 01:35:24 -0500 Received: from de.cellform.com ([88.217.224.109]:55889 helo=jocasta.intra) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cRvSJ-0004nx-RO for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 13 Jan 2017 01:35:20 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87eg07cybi.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: Chris Marusich Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org --opJtzjQTFsWo+cga Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Jan 12, 2017 at 09:40:17PM -0800, Chris Marusich wrote: John Darrington writes: =20 > The wip-installer branch is ready for testing and general review. > > This branch provides a curses based graphical interface to the disk > images used for installing GuixSD. It is intended to allow users > unfamiliar with bash and other aspects of unix-like operating systems > to easily install GuixSD. This means, it should allow you to insta= ll > GuixSD on a bare PC, without ever touching a shell (whilst still > providing that option for those who want it). > > Whilst it is still a work in progress it has, in my opinion, got to > a stage where it is usable. Before merging into master however, it > would be great to get feedback from others. > > For those of you who don't wish to build a disk-image yourselves, > Ludo has kindly made available pre-built images for x86_64 and > i686-linux systems at http://web.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/software/guix/ > > Please report coding and usability issues. =20 I want to test this, but I've arrived late to the party. Does the link above contain the most recent round(s) of feedback? I've tried to bui= ld the wip-installer branch, but I found that the installation system tes= ts failed, so I thought I'd ask before trying to build it myself. =20 Nothing signficant has changed since this image was made. So your comments= will still be valid and appreciated. Thanks, John --=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. --opJtzjQTFsWo+cga Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iEYEARECAAYFAlh4dR8ACgkQimdxnC3oJ7OWygCeM8tiW1+QfjZGLjdjwH9HuoEG rlwAn04FOk2orNLYi+KZ1aXC/dWp5UEC =1fJE -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --opJtzjQTFsWo+cga--