Efraim Flashner <efr...@flashner.co.il> skribis: > On Mon, Oct 12, 2020 at 01:47:25PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Mathieu Othacehe <othac...@gnu.org> skribis: >> >> >> I'm actually not really sure how one would use the installer on one of >> >> the boards. I think the bare-bones disk-images would be best; just >> >> download it and flash it onto the board or an SD card and edit >> >> /etc/config.scm to add your user and services. Or to boot up into the >> >> installer and overwrite itself. >> > >> > The CI is already building substitutes for two images >> > (hurd-barebones-qcow2-image and pine64-barebones-raw-image). We could >> > maybe release 1.2 version of those images. >> >> Keep in mind that images use space at ftp.gnu.org and also take time to >> build (having CI up-to-date helps with that, but it doesn’t not >> eliminate build times due to the ‘update-guix-package’ dance that takes >> place during “make release”.) > > We could also list out the commands for building the image and have > "community images" built and tested by people who actually have the > boards.
Yeah, though “community images” could rhyme with “we’re-not-sure-what’s-inside images”. :-) >> Likewise, if we ship more images, we should update the “System >> Installation” section accordingly and be clear about what users can >> expect. > > My slightly more featureful pine64plus image I built for myself came out > to 1.5 GiB and 291 MiB with bzip2. I don't know how much space the other > images or x86* images are. Cool. > We could also build and test them on a different schedule and upload > them at a later date as they're shown to be working. Hmm, tricky, security-wise. Anyway, let’s work on that for 1.3! Ludo’.
