l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: > Chris Marusich <cmmarus...@gmail.com> skribis: > >> l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: >> >>> Chris Marusich <cmmarus...@gmail.com> skribis: >>> >>>> l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: >>>> >>>>> Chris Marusich <cmmarus...@gmail.com> skribis: >>>>> >>>>>> Is anyone actively working on documenting the new encrypted root stuff? >>>>>> If not, I'm happy to try my hand at it. I'm interested in trying to set >>>>>> it up on my laptop, anyway. >>>>> >>>>> I’ve added documentation in 2b5fea5ba3b07999cf198e1132ffcacbfcb7ed72. >>>>> >>>>> Please send a patch if you think of improvements that can be made. >>>> >>>> I'm happy to report that I was successful in setting up an encrypted >>>> root file system on my Libreboot laptop. I have to enter the passphrase >>>> twice, but that's no different from the normal case (without Libreboot). >>>> It took me multiple days to get it working, though, because each time I >>>> tried to run "guix system init", it took over 8 hours to finish! >>> >>> Woow, was it building stuff, or was downloading super slow? Was is a >>> desktop-style install? >> >> It was a desktop-style install. Many packages were built from source, >> even though some were downloaded via substitutes, also. It was >> particularly painful because I didn't know how to save and re-use the >> result of the first build attempt, so I'm sure I wasted a lot of time >> starting over and rebuilding the same packages a second time. > > There’s currently no option to resume an install unfortunately. > > I’m surprised though. 0.12.0 binaries are still available on > hydra.gnu.org AFAIK, or at least we (i.e., Mark) took the appropriate > measures to protect them from garbage collection. > > I guess I should try a desktop install and see which substitutes are > missing.
It's probably because I ran 'guix pull' before installing. Maybe I shouldn't have done that! -- Chris
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