From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ethan Stefan Day Subject: feedback as solicited by Guix manual (Section 7.1.5) Date: Sun, 29 May 2016 20:45:18 -0400 Message-ID: <574B8D1E.6080000@ethan-stefan.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:41385) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1b7BL3-000069-Ln for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 29 May 2016 20:45:50 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1b7BKz-0001pa-EO for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 29 May 2016 20:45:48 -0400 Received: from relay4-d.mail.gandi.net ([217.70.183.196]:38871) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1b7BKz-0001pW-7J for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 29 May 2016 20:45:45 -0400 Received: from mfilter38-d.gandi.net (mfilter38-d.gandi.net [217.70.178.169]) by relay4-d.mail.gandi.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8AB36172098 for ; Mon, 30 May 2016 02:45:43 +0200 (CEST) Received: from relay4-d.mail.gandi.net ([IPv6:::ffff:217.70.183.196]) by mfilter38-d.gandi.net (mfilter38-d.gandi.net [::ffff:10.0.15.180]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id aQuKnH1OsgzX for ; Mon, 30 May 2016 02:45:41 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [192.168.2.7] (c-76-100-207-8.hsd1.md.comcast.net [76.100.207.8]) (Authenticated sender: esday@ethan-stefan.net) by relay4-d.mail.gandi.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 9FB7C172097 for ; Mon, 30 May 2016 02:45:41 +0200 (CEST) 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 Hello, I just got finished setting up GuixSD on one of these , to use as a fun/hacking box. I hit a bump with partitioning the drive, but managed to figure it out. The Guix manual refers to the Parted manual for an overview of partitioning, but the Parted manual no longer provides that and instead references some other manual without providing a link. It was rather comical: "Error, no bios_grub partition. Grub not installed." "Oh, well I made the root drive bootable. Lets just reboot and see what happens." ... "BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP..." I am running Gnome, and aside from video tearing and Icecat not appearing in the activities view, things seem to be working fine. I'll be looking for ways to contribute once I have a better understanding of the system. Thanks for putting this together, and a particular thanks to whoever packaged GHC (I have read that bootstrapping it can be tricky). -Ethan Day