Newbie Install Experience Report [FYI]

2018-07-11 Thread Ken.Dickey
Greetings. Just getting started. Don't know enough to properly post bugs yet, but hope this is useful. I really want to try out aarch64 with various (raspi3,LePotato) but decided to start simple with power hungry ol' x86_64. Used: https://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/guix/guixsd-install-0.15.0.x86_

Re: install experience

2017-01-23 Thread Thomas Danckaert
From: l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) Subject: Re: install experience Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2017 15:17:16 +0100 - When I tried to login as non-root user for the first time, my home directory was not there, and I was sent back to the login screen. I logged in as root and created/chown'e

Re: install experience

2017-01-23 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi Thomas! Thanks for your report on your experience. It’s very helpful in understanding what’s wrong and in improving the thing! Thomas Danckaert skribis: > - I had a false start because on my first attempt, I did not have a >BIOS boot partition (there was still an EFI system partition,

install experience

2017-01-23 Thread Thomas Danckaert
Hi Guix-devel, Yesterday, I finally installed GuixSD on my laptop “natively”. Thanks to jmd and iyzsong who gave me some advice on #guix. Overall, it went well, didn't take long, and was quite straightforward thanks to the clear documentation. Just in case it's useful, here's a short account o