On Sun, May 29, 2016 at 08:45:18PM -0400, Ethan Stefan Day wrote: > Hello, > > I just got finished setting up GuixSD on one of these > <https://www.thinkpenguin.com/gnu-linux/penguin-adelie-gnu-linux-laptop>, to > use as a fun/hacking box. I hit a bump with partitioning the drive, but > managed to figure it out. The Guix manual refers to the Parted manual > for an overview of partitioning, but the Parted manual no longer > provides that and instead references some other manual without providing > a link. It was rather comical:
I found some instructions in the Parted manual, specifically in section 2: Using Parted. If that wasn't helpful, do you think we should link to manuals for fdisk or cfdisk also or instead? > > "Error, no bios_grub partition. Grub not installed." > "Oh, well I made the root drive bootable. Lets just reboot and see what > happens." > ... > "BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP..." > > I am running Gnome, and aside from video tearing and Icecat not > appearing in the activities view, things seem to be working fine. I'll > be looking for ways to contribute once I have a better understanding of > the system. Thanks for putting this together, and a particular thanks > to whoever packaged GHC (I have read that bootstrapping it can be tricky). > > -Ethan Day >
