Re: Guix on Novena

2020-09-08 Thread Efraim Flashner
On Tue, Sep 08, 2020 at 12:56:22PM +0200, Andreas Enge wrote: > On Sun, Sep 06, 2020 at 10:45:22AM +0200, Andreas Enge wrote: > >guix system disk-image -e "(@ (gnu system install) > > novena-installation-os)" > > executed on an aarch64 machine should have created a bootable SD card > > image w

Re: Guix on Novena

2020-09-08 Thread Andreas Enge
On Sun, Sep 06, 2020 at 10:45:22AM +0200, Andreas Enge wrote: >guix system disk-image -e "(@ (gnu system install) novena-installation-os)" > executed on an aarch64 machine should have created a bootable SD card > image with only Guix. I could not resist and gave it a try, however it failed (ve

Re: Guix on Novena

2020-09-07 Thread Andreas Enge
On Sun, Sep 06, 2020 at 07:23:33AM -0700, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: > I'm not sure if the bootloader can be installed on the full-sized SD > slot, but certainly works with the annoying microSD slot. Sometimes the > enumeration of the device number may vary from one kernel version or > even boot to t

Re: Guix on Novena

2020-09-07 Thread Andreas Enge
Replying to self: On Sun, Sep 06, 2020 at 10:45:22AM +0200, Andreas Enge wrote: > Will mounting /dev/sda1 to /mnt and issuing "guix system init config.scm /mnt" > work? (The handbook suggests to do "herd start cow-store /mnt", but I forgot > what this is needed for.) Will it populate only /mnt/gnu

Re: Guix on Novena

2020-09-06 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On 2020-09-06, Andreas Enge wrote: > On Wed, Sep 02, 2020 at 11:33:22AM -0700, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: >> Yes, I would recommend installing Guix System directly to SATA, since >> u-boot can boot from SATA partitions marked bootable (either MBR or GPT >> though what GPT calls it I forget), and SATA

Re: Guix on Novena

2020-09-06 Thread Andreas Enge
Hello, sorry for what are probably silly questions, I have difficulties wrapping my head around how installation works. I am attaching my current configuration, copy-pasted from our Overdrive machines and augmented by snippets from yours, Vagrant. Right now I am on Debian with Guix as package man

Re: Guix on Novena

2020-09-02 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On 2020-09-02, Andreas Enge wrote: > On Wed, Sep 02, 2020 at 10:30:22AM -0700, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: > As for installing the Guix system on arm machines, I am quite lost. > The installer does not work, or does it? Apart from that, I only know > the dirty way of installing the Guix package manage

Re: Guix on Novena

2020-09-02 Thread Andreas Enge
On Wed, Sep 02, 2020 at 10:30:22AM -0700, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: > I haven't finished upgrading to a more recent guix, but attached is a > slightly trimmed down config that I used as recently as March. Great, thanks! So far, I have been upgrading the machine to Debian buster. There are scripts

Re: Guix on Novena

2020-09-02 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On 2020-09-01, Andreas Enge wrote: > On Tue, Sep 01, 2020 at 09:41:04AM -0700, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: >> I have one and had a Guix System install on it, but it's been some >> months since I've booted it. ... > Okay, if you get round to it, it would be most welcome if you could share > your experi

Re: Guix on Novena

2020-09-01 Thread Andreas Enge
On Tue, Sep 01, 2020 at 09:41:04AM -0700, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: > I have one and had a Guix System install on it, but it's been some > months since I've booted it. There's another bug I need to test with it, > so I'll dig it out of the closet sometime soon so I can poke at the > configuration an

Re: Guix on Novena

2020-09-01 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On 2020-09-01, Andreas Enge wrote: > I would like to put our armhf Novena board back into service for the Guix > build farm. In the past, I have been using Guix on Debian on the machine. > Has anyone had success in installing Guix "The GNU System" on a Novena? > If yes, could you point me to a writ

Guix on Novena

2020-09-01 Thread Andreas Enge
Hello, I would like to put our armhf Novena board back into service for the Guix build farm. In the past, I have been using Guix on Debian on the machine. Has anyone had success in installing Guix "The GNU System" on a Novena? If yes, could you point me to a write-up on what to do or otherwise hel