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Subject: Re: feedback as solicited by Guix manual (Section 7.1.5)
Date: Tue, 31 May 2016 18:19:45 +0200
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To: Ethan Stefan Day <esday@ethan-stefan.net>
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Hi!

Ethan Stefan Day <esday@ethan-stefan.net> skribis:

> I just got finished setting up GuixSD on one of these
> <https://www.thinkpenguin.com/gnu-linux/penguin-adelie-gnu-linux-laptop>,=
 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..."

Hmm, I wonder how this happened=E2=80=A6 but glad you worked around it!

> 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).

Thanks a lot for your feedback, even more so that it feels rather
positive!  ;-)

Ludo=E2=80=99.