From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: myglc2 Subject: Re: Graphical Installer - Call for Testing. Date: Fri, 06 Jan 2017 15:53:17 -0500 Message-ID: <867f67lxky.fsf@gmail.com> References: <20170104075928.GA23509@jocasta.intra> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:54466) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cPbPu-0006WA-Oi for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Jan 2017 15:47:16 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cPbPr-00014b-Ku for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Jan 2017 15:47:14 -0500 Received: from mail-qk0-x229.google.com ([2607:f8b0:400d:c09::229]:35391) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cPbPr-00013h-FK for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Jan 2017 15:47:11 -0500 Received: by mail-qk0-x229.google.com with SMTP id u25so471192853qki.2 for ; Fri, 06 Jan 2017 12:47:09 -0800 (PST) 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: John Darrington Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org On 01/04/2017 at 08:59 John Darrington writes: > The wip-installer branch is ready for testing and general review. This is looking really great! I tried ... http://web.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/software/guix/guixsd-graphical-installer-x86-64-linux ... on the headless server where I run GuixSD. I experienced these issues: ATTEMPT 1 I started with a previously partitioned disk. I selected the 'Headless server' option. I did not modify the config. The install completed w/o errors. WOW! After restarting, I logged in to root and looked around. I was a bit disappointed that no default user was created. So I figured I needed to edit the config.scm file. But I didn't see it in /etc where I hoped it would be. I was also a bit disappointed that emacs wasn't installed. Suggestions: 1) Add a user configuration menu/form? 2) save the config file in an obvious place? 3) install emacs? ATTEMPT 2 This time I tried to set up the HD from scratch. I successfully deleted old partitions and created new partitions. It was not clear how much I needed to know (e.g., do I need to mark a partition bootable?) Then I got stuck in "Allocate disk partitions". I could enter a '/' mount point. I could 're-create' the file system. 'Continue' took me back to "select a partition". But I couldn't figure out how to get back to the main menu/form to continue the installation. I guess 'Go-Back' is supposed to do this, but it was a noop for me. George