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authorPinka pallini <chthonic_one@protonmail.com>2021-02-20 17:29:37 +0000
committerJonathan Brielmaier <jonathan.brielmaier@web.de>2021-02-21 12:43:31 +0100
commita139a6e0669a8e5954f680b5019524b62f510ce9 (patch)
tree4897a1796f0ecb7062280f270ce271a87c38e4a7
parentd8c663800de10bc4c8180acd71379e061c6f0458 (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>
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@@ -98,9 +98,16 @@ For some hardware the official Guix installation image won't do
98nonfree Linux kernel and nonfree firmware with the following command: 98nonfree Linux kernel and nonfree firmware with the following command:
99 99
100#+begin_src sh 100#+begin_src sh
101guix system disk-image /path/to/this/channel/nongnu/system/install.scm 101guix system image --image-size=7.2GiB /path/to/this/channel/nongnu/system/install.scm
102#+end_src 102#+end_src
103 103
104As indicated bellow, you will need to run ~guix pull~ to download the
105Nonguix package descriptions. Some free space on your USB thumbdrive is
106required for this operation to succeed. The ~--image-size~ option allows
107you to specify the size of the image and, as such, to allocate free space
108to it. The given value is purely indicative. It obviously depends on your
109thumbdrive capacity.
110
104Then you can write the generated disk image to a USB thumbdrive with: 111Then you can write the generated disk image to a USB thumbdrive with:
105 112
106#+BEGIN_SRC sh 113#+BEGIN_SRC sh