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| author | Pinka pallini <chthonic_one@protonmail.com> | 2021-02-20 17:29:37 +0000 |
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| committer | Jonathan Brielmaier <jonathan.brielmaier@web.de> | 2021-02-21 12:43:31 +0100 |
| commit | a139a6e0669a8e5954f680b5019524b62f510ce9 (patch) | |
| tree | 4897a1796f0ecb7062280f270ce271a87c38e4a7 | |
| parent | d8c663800de10bc4c8180acd71379e061c6f0458 (diff) | |
README.org: Add free space to installation image.
Discussed at https://gitlab.com/nonguix/nonguix/-/issues/91.
* README.org (** Installation image): Add `--image-size=7.2GiB` and an
explanation why.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Brielmaier <jonathan.brielmaier@web.de>
| -rw-r--r-- | README.org | 9 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions
| @@ -98,9 +98,16 @@ For some hardware the official Guix installation image won't do | |||
| 98 | nonfree Linux kernel and nonfree firmware with the following command: | 98 | nonfree Linux kernel and nonfree firmware with the following command: |
| 99 | 99 | ||
| 100 | #+begin_src sh | 100 | #+begin_src sh |
| 101 | guix system disk-image /path/to/this/channel/nongnu/system/install.scm | 101 | guix system image --image-size=7.2GiB /path/to/this/channel/nongnu/system/install.scm |
| 102 | #+end_src | 102 | #+end_src |
| 103 | 103 | ||
| 104 | As indicated bellow, you will need to run ~guix pull~ to download the | ||
| 105 | Nonguix package descriptions. Some free space on your USB thumbdrive is | ||
| 106 | required for this operation to succeed. The ~--image-size~ option allows | ||
| 107 | you to specify the size of the image and, as such, to allocate free space | ||
| 108 | to it. The given value is purely indicative. It obviously depends on your | ||
| 109 | thumbdrive capacity. | ||
| 110 | |||
| 104 | Then you can write the generated disk image to a USB thumbdrive with: | 111 | Then you can write the generated disk image to a USB thumbdrive with: |
| 105 | 112 | ||
| 106 | #+BEGIN_SRC sh | 113 | #+BEGIN_SRC sh |
