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From: Danny Milosavljevic <dannym@scratchpost.org>
Subject: bug#37021: GuixSD 1.01-i686 install DVD boot failure on Macbook1,
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Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2019 00:32:49 +0200
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To: Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>
Cc: Calvin Heim <frofroggy@gmail.com>, 37021@debbugs.gnu.org

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Hi Mark,
Hi Calvin,

On Thu, 22 Aug 2019 17:26:50 -0400
Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org> wrote:

> I appreciate your effort to make life easier for Calvin, but in general
> it seems like a bad security practice to post large unsigned disk images
> and asking users to try them.

In general I agree.  So I would suggest Calvin to try it and then later del=
ete
the target drive.

I think it is unreasonable to expect users to build disk images of distribu=
tions
that don't work for them (it's nice if they do--but I don't like the shirki=
ng of
responsibility.  It's a large time investment that has a big initial learni=
ng
curve and no guaranteed payoff).

> A digital signature from you would
> improve matters somewhat, but ideally there should also be a description
> of how to reproduce this image.

In this case, the current Guix release image doesn't have one important fix
that directly affects Macbooks.  Therefore, I built a current image of guix
master (without any extra changes--so it does contain the fix):

$ ./pre-inst-env guix system disk-image -t iso9660 -s i686-linux gnu/system=
/install.scm

As I said in the past, let's please release Guix again soon so the fix is g=
oing
to users.

Also, I'm curious whether it improves the situation for Calvin (reading thr=
ough
the thread, it might not--the failure is too late).

> It's also not good to be promoting Google Drive here, which requires
> non-free Javascript.  I'm aware that IceCat includes an extension to
> allow Google Drive to at least partially work with LibreJS, but I was
> unable to easily get it to work on my IceCat configuration where I use
> NoScript instead.

In the end there's a limit to how much time I'm going to spend on this.
Google drive works and is easy enough to use--if there's an alternative that
at least takes less effort than Calvin building the image on his own, I'll
use that.

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