From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Ken.Dickey" Subject: Newbie Install Experience Report [FYI] Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2018 23:53:52 +0000 Message-ID: <20180710235352.a2729ebbce4efe076206cb87@whidbey.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="Multipart=_Tue__10_Jul_2018_23_53_52_+0000_2BM16bz4_+wPxAh/" Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:53835) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fd2SF-0005ar-MS for Guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 10 Jul 2018 19:54:00 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fd2SC-0007ow-KL for Guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 10 Jul 2018 19:53:59 -0400 Received: from mail.whidbey.net ([209.166.65.58]:48640) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fd2SC-0007oC-9S for Guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 10 Jul 2018 19:53:56 -0400 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: Guix-devel@gnu.org This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --Multipart=_Tue__10_Jul_2018_23_53_52_+0000_2BM16bz4_+wPxAh/ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Greetings. Just getting started. Don't know enough to properly post bugs yet, but hope this is useful. I really want to try out aarch64 with various (raspi3,LePotato) but decided to start simple with power hungry ol' x86_64. Used: https://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/guix/guixsd-install-0.15.0.x86_64-linux.iso.xz [1] Instructions pretty good but had a typo in my timezone ("config.scm"), so after the long, slow download process the install failed. RECOMMEND: Timezone "preflight" check at beginning would have saved much time. Started again from scratch. This worked OK, but you know the download delay is painful. 8^| Thanks for zile, btw [prefer mg]. Old emacs fingers... [2] I typically multiboot but did not see how to do this easily, so allowed the grub install [no efi]. [3] After reboot and setting passwords, did root> guix pull root> guix system reconfigure ==> guix system: error: wrong number of arguments to 'reconfigure' Tried root> guix system reconfigure /etc/config.scm which reported no errors. root> guix package -i mg root> guix package -i emacs dillo ==> guix package: warning: Consider running 'guix pull' followed by 'guix package -u' to get up-to-date packages and security updates. user> guix pull && guix package -u ... on to other explorations ... 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