Hi, I tried installing GuixSD on a fresh (virtual) machine and found that the instructions about partitioning the hard-disk are quite confusing.
I'm not sure if it's worth, updating the manual, since the graphical
installer may be here soon. But I want to share my experience to show
that we strongly need the graphical installer :-)
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The first example is of a partitioning program is "cfdisk". I do non
know this program, tried it and failed terrible. cfdisk seems to
expect some script (huh?) to execute.
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The first step in the instructions should be to (optionally)
initialize the partition table (for the case this is a fresh disk).
o
Should this a GPT partition table?
o Which commands to issue?
o parted mklabel gpt
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How to align the first partition (with parted)?
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How big should the boot partition be? Mine seems to have been too
small, so I got warnings when formatting as FAT32.
* FMPOV for the users it would be easier to have a list of commands to
issue, like this:
# parted /dev/sda
mkpart primary fat32 1024s 20MB
mkpart primary ext2 20MB 100%
set 1 esp on
name 1 boot
name 2 my-root
quit
# mkfs.fat -F32 /dev/sda1
# mkfs.ext4 -L my-root /dev/sda2
My next step will be to try out the graphical installer.
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Regards
Hartmut Goebel
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