Much better results with Guix-1.0.1 - although the default 8Gb disk was too small at first. Using a 16Gb VirtualBox VDI allowed successful installation, and I now have a running system.
Thanks to all the contributors! On Sat, 4 May 2019 at 17:39, Laura Lazzati <laura.lazzati...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Peter! > > > On Sat, 4 May 2019, 10:19 Peter Faller, <pgfal...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi - >> >> My first attempt to install Guix failed - sorry, I don't have details, >> but I think it may have had something to do with selecting too many window >> managers. So I tried again, selecting only GNOME. >> > Did you delete the VM and started al over again or just reconfigured? > >> The installation appeared to work (no obvious errors), but the graphical >> login failed for both root and my user account. Logging in via Ctrl-Alt-F1 >> to a console worked, but no commands were available - not even 'ls' or >> 'cd'. I could run some commands by typing in the full, long, >> '....profile...' command name; but there's something seriously wrong with >> having to do that. >> >> I couldn't find an installation log that might be helpful; but if there >> is such a thing that might be useful for troubleshooting, let me know. >> > I run virtualbox too because it was the first one I learnt but for the > distro I suggest using qemu. I have also an Ubuntu host and after > struggling for a week (because the tool was new to me) I made it work. > > Regards! > Laura >
