From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) Subject: Re: install experience Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2017 15:17:16 +0100 Message-ID: <87lgu1vp1v.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20170123.110557.219963780152995906.post@thomasdanckaert.be> 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]:41372) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cVfQv-0004on-Pc for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 23 Jan 2017 09:17:23 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cVfQs-00042O-Lv for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 23 Jan 2017 09:17:21 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20170123.110557.219963780152995906.post@thomasdanckaert.be> (Thomas Danckaert's message of "Mon, 23 Jan 2017 11:05:57 +0100 (CET)") 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: Thomas Danckaert Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org Hi Thomas! Thanks for your report on your experience. It=E2=80=99s very helpful in understanding what=E2=80=99s wrong and in improving the thing! Thomas Danckaert skribis: > - I had a false start because on my first attempt, I did not have a > BIOS boot partition (there was still an EFI system partition, > originally from a past windows installation, I think), so the final > step of the installation, installing grub, failed. =E5=AE=8B=E6=96=87= =E6=AD=A6 already > submitted a patch to point out this requirement in the docs. Good. :-) I hope we can eventually rely on a manual that deals specifically with partitioning. > - During this first attempt, which would ultimately fail for the > above reason, I also got an error running =E2=80=9Cherd start cow-store > /mnt=E2=80=9D. The message was: > > =E2=80=9CERROR. in procedure mount: mount "./rw-store" on "/gnu/store= ": > invalid > argument=E2=80=9D > > I decided to reboot and try again, but got the same message. > However, when running guix system reconfigure, the store in > /mnt/gnu/store did get populated (which is the point of cow-store, > as I understand it), so perhaps this error was not fatal... > > On my second attempt (then with the correct boot partition), I did > not get this error anymore. So I have no further information, I'm > afraid. The only difference that I'm aware of between both > attempts, was the partitioning scheme (2nd attempt added the BIOS > boot partition, and removed a few unnecessary partitions). People reported it before but I don=E2=80=99t see how this can happen. At = any rate, there seems to be a bug lurking here, we=E2=80=99ll have to investiga= te. > - I followed advice I thought I'd once read somewhere (though not in > the manual), and first installed a basic system with the bare-bones > config from > > https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/html_node/Using-the-Configuratio= n-System.html#Using-the-Configuration-System, > > and then switched to a full desktop environment after booting into > the newly installed system for the first time (perhaps I > could/should have just used a full desktop rightaway?). I had > used the wireless during installation, but didn't include > wpa_supplicant (and whatever else might be needed to get similar > wifi support as the installation image) in my system > configuration, so I couldn't use wireless anymore after booting > into my new system :-) Therefore, I had to walk over to my router > and connect by cable to continue (at least that was the solution I > came up with). Heh. :-) > - When I tried to login as non-root user for the first time, my home > directory was not there, and I was sent back to the login screen. I > logged in as root and created/chown'ed the home directory myself. > Unfortunately, I have no further information here, either. Could it be that /home is a separate partition? There=E2=80=99s a bug wait= ing to be fixed in this area: . > Now, the system works fine, though I'll try to tweak it for better > touchpad support, graphics acceleration (I'm gnome3 is currently > unusable) and sharper fonts. Those things worked better when it was > running Ubuntu, though I suspect some of that was due to non-free > driver blobs etc. If you find ways to tweak it, let us know how we can improve the default settings. Thank you! LUdo=E2=80=99.