* install experience
@ 2017-01-23 10:05 Thomas Danckaert
2017-01-23 14:17 ` Ludovic Courtès
0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Thomas Danckaert @ 2017-01-23 10:05 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: guix-devel
Hi Guix-devel,
Yesterday, I finally installed GuixSD on my laptop “natively”. Thanks
to jmd and iyzsong who gave me some advice on #guix. Overall, it went
well, didn't take long, and was quite straightforward thanks to the
clear documentation. Just in case it's useful, here's a short account
of my stumbling through the installation:
- I had a false start because on my first attempt, I did not have a
BIOS boot partition (there was still an EFI system partition,
originally from a past windows installation, I think), so the
final
step of the installation, installing grub, failed. 宋文武 already
submitted a patch to point out this requirement in the docs.
- During this first attempt, which would ultimately fail for the
above reason, I also got an error running “herd start cow-store
/mnt”. The message was:
“ERROR. in procedure mount: mount "./rw-store" on "/gnu/store":
invalid
argument”
I decided to reboot and try again, but got the same message.
However, when running guix system reconfigure, the store in
/mnt/gnu/store did get populated (which is the point of cow-store,
as I understand it), so perhaps this error was not fatal...
On my second attempt (then with the correct boot partition), I did
not get this error anymore. So I have no further information, I'm
afraid. The only difference that I'm aware of between both
attempts, was the partitioning scheme (2nd attempt added the BIOS
boot partition, and removed a few unnecessary partitions).
- I followed advice I thought I'd once read somewhere (though not in
the manual), and first installed a basic system with the
bare-bones
config from
https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/html_node/Using-the-Configuration-System.html#Using-the-Configuration-System,
and then switched to a full desktop environment after booting
into
the newly installed system for the first time (perhaps I
could/should have just used a full desktop rightaway?). I had
used the wireless during installation, but didn't include
wpa_supplicant (and whatever else might be needed to get similar
wifi support as the installation image) in my system
configuration, so I couldn't use wireless anymore after booting
into my new system :-) Therefore, I had to walk over to my router
and connect by cable to continue (at least that was the solution
I
came up with).
- When I tried to login as non-root user for the first time, my home
directory was not there, and I was sent back to the login screen.
I
logged in as root and created/chown'ed the home directory myself.
Unfortunately, I have no further information here, either.
Now, the system works fine, though I'll try to tweak it for better
touchpad support, graphics acceleration (I'm gnome3 is currently
unusable) and sharper fonts. Those things worked better when it was
running Ubuntu, though I suspect some of that was due to non-free
driver blobs etc.
Thomas
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* Re: install experience
2017-01-23 10:05 install experience Thomas Danckaert
@ 2017-01-23 14:17 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-01-24 7:51 ` Thomas Danckaert
0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Ludovic Courtès @ 2017-01-23 14:17 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Thomas Danckaert; +Cc: guix-devel
Hi Thomas!
Thanks for your report on your experience. It’s very helpful in
understanding what’s wrong and in improving the thing!
Thomas Danckaert <post@thomasdanckaert.be> skribis:
> - I had a false start because on my first attempt, I did not have a
> BIOS boot partition (there was still an EFI system partition,
> originally from a past windows installation, I think), so the final
> step of the installation, installing grub, failed. 宋文武 already
> submitted a patch to point out this requirement in the docs.
Good. :-)
I hope we can eventually rely on a manual that deals specifically with
partitioning.
> - During this first attempt, which would ultimately fail for the
> above reason, I also got an error running “herd start cow-store
> /mnt”. The message was:
>
> “ERROR. in procedure mount: mount "./rw-store" on "/gnu/store":
> invalid
> argument”
>
> I decided to reboot and try again, but got the same message.
> However, when running guix system reconfigure, the store in
> /mnt/gnu/store did get populated (which is the point of cow-store,
> as I understand it), so perhaps this error was not fatal...
>
> On my second attempt (then with the correct boot partition), I did
> not get this error anymore. So I have no further information, I'm
> afraid. The only difference that I'm aware of between both
> attempts, was the partitioning scheme (2nd attempt added the BIOS
> boot partition, and removed a few unnecessary partitions).
People reported it before but I don’t see how this can happen. At any
rate, there seems to be a bug lurking here, we’ll have to investigate.
> - I followed advice I thought I'd once read somewhere (though not in
> the manual), and first installed a basic system with the bare-bones
> config from
>
> https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/html_node/Using-the-Configuration-System.html#Using-the-Configuration-System,
>
> and then switched to a full desktop environment after booting into
> the newly installed system for the first time (perhaps I
> could/should have just used a full desktop rightaway?). I had
> used the wireless during installation, but didn't include
> wpa_supplicant (and whatever else might be needed to get similar
> wifi support as the installation image) in my system
> configuration, so I couldn't use wireless anymore after booting
> into my new system :-) Therefore, I had to walk over to my router
> and connect by cable to continue (at least that was the solution I
> came up with).
Heh. :-)
> - When I tried to login as non-root user for the first time, my home
> directory was not there, and I was sent back to the login screen. I
> logged in as root and created/chown'ed the home directory myself.
> Unfortunately, I have no further information here, either.
Could it be that /home is a separate partition? There’s a bug waiting
to be fixed in this area: <https://bugs.gnu.org/21108>.
> Now, the system works fine, though I'll try to tweak it for better
> touchpad support, graphics acceleration (I'm gnome3 is currently
> unusable) and sharper fonts. Those things worked better when it was
> running Ubuntu, though I suspect some of that was due to non-free
> driver blobs etc.
If you find ways to tweak it, let us know how we can improve the default
settings.
Thank you!
LUdo’.
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* Re: install experience
2017-01-23 14:17 ` Ludovic Courtès
@ 2017-01-24 7:51 ` Thomas Danckaert
0 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Thomas Danckaert @ 2017-01-24 7:51 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: ludo; +Cc: guix-devel
From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
Subject: Re: install experience
Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2017 15:17:16 +0100
>> - When I tried to login as non-root user for the first time, my
>> home
>> directory was not there, and I was sent back to the login
>> screen. I
>> logged in as root and created/chown'ed the home directory
>> myself.
>> Unfortunately, I have no further information here, either.
>
> Could it be that /home is a separate partition? There’s a bug
> waiting
> to be fixed in this area: <https://bugs.gnu.org/21108>.
Yes, that looks like the same issued. Indeed, I noticed today that a
/home/thomas directory got created on my root partition (I suppose it
then somehow hidden when my home partition is mounted at /home).
>> Now, the system works fine, though I'll try to tweak it for better
>> touchpad support, graphics acceleration (I'm gnome3 is currently
>> unusable) and sharper fonts. Those things worked better when it
>> was
>> running Ubuntu, though I suspect some of that was due to non-free
>> driver blobs etc.
>
> If you find ways to tweak it, let us know how we can improve the
> default
> settings.
Coming from Ubuntu, I don't have any experience fiddling with these
things, but I'll do my best ;-)
Thomas
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