From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Thompson Subject: Re: System installation from a USB stick Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2014 08:06:41 -0400 Message-ID: <87k37xi8q6.fsf@izanagi.i-did-not-set--mail-host-address--so-tickle-me> References: <87y4xdhgn3.fsf@gnu.org> <877g3z2w60.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:41979) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1X1wpq-0006vW-BD for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Jul 2014 08:07:00 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1X1wph-0008AQ-KQ for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Jul 2014 08:06:54 -0400 Received: from na3sys009aog109.obsmtp.com ([74.125.149.201]:41025) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1X1wph-0008AD-CE for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Jul 2014 08:06:45 -0400 Received: by mail-qc0-f174.google.com with SMTP id x13so8143429qcv.19 for ; Tue, 01 Jul 2014 05:06:43 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <877g3z2w60.fsf@gnu.org> 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-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?= , guix-devel Ludovic Court=C3=A8s writes: > Hello! > > I=E2=80=99ve uploaded a USB installation image for x86_64 for testing: > > http://www.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/software/guix/gnu-usb-install-20140629.x86_= 64.xz > SHA1: d36e70d25b81b734fa9558a5446fabb96489ec3b > (100 MiB) > > It works like this: > > 1. Run =E2=80=98xz -d gnu-usb-install-20140629.x86_64.xz=E2=80=99. > > 2. Copy it as is to a USB stick that of 1GiB or more: > dd if=3Dgnu-usb-install-20140629.x86_64 of=3D/dev/sdX > where sdX is the device corresponding to the USB stick. > > Then you can boot on the USB stick. There=E2=80=99s a bit of documentati= on on > tty2, but it lacks what follows. ;-) > It boots! :) > To install the system, you would: > > 1. Configure the network, by running =E2=80=98dhclient eth0=E2=80=99 fo= r instance. > Normally udev automatically loads device drivers (e.g., my laptop > uses e1000e for Ethernet), but since it=E2=80=99s a small config ker= nel, it > may miss drivers for your system, in which case you=E2=80=99re screw= ed. > My desktop computer is in the "screwed" category. I need the r8169 kernel module for ethernet to work. --=20 David Thompson Web Developer - Free Software Foundation - http://fsf.org GPG Key: 0FF1D807 Support the FSF: https://fsf.org/donate