Hi Nalin! Nalin Ranjan <[email protected]> writes:
> Thank you so much Clement. > > Any idea by when it could be? The Berlin build farm is back, so it would be a good idea, I think, to use only berlin.guixsd.org as substitute (unless hydra.gnu.org is back? But I haven't heard about it). As per https://bugs.gnu.org/33151, it is recommended to avoid using mirror.hydra.gnu.org while hydra.gnu.org is down. > Also if someone can help me with the experience which I am going to write > below, I will be really grateful. > > It's just that I am not trying to upgrade Guix, but have been trying to > unsuccessfully install GuixSD for the first time ever on my laptop. In the > past week or so I have ran the command system init like 7-8 times,and every > time it fails into 504(Gateway timeout), or Patch not found(may be 404), > and couple of occasions SHA mismatch. I tried running the default command > as per documentation, also tried with --substitute-urls specified as > mirror.hydra.gnu.org and/or berlin.guixsd.org a but end result being same. > The install halts in the middle. When I specified --keep-going(and left for > office), when I came back, I saw an infinite loop of 504s, just being > printed out on the console repetitively for the same package. > > Then I tried specifying --fallback, which kind of seems to get the thing > done. Though it takes innate amount of time to run(guess everything is > getting compiled from bottom to top), but in the very last step it fails > saying system error: grub failed to install. Phewwww, back to square one, > yet another time. I think your best bet is to use --fallback, with the minimum installation image, that is: the bare bones setup[1]. You need to have a good internet connection, and... be patient. [1]: https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/en/html_node/Using-the-Configuration-System.html > I have a ThinkPad T410 on which I am trying to do this. Currently I have a > dual boot configuration running Ubuntu and Windows 7. Could that grub > install failure because of my /boot not being empty and formatted afresh > for GuixSD? If so, can anyone of you please help me in figuring out how to > install GuixSD alongside those existing ones(other distros plus special Mr. > Windows)? Do I need to reformat my /boot to make it fresh so that Grub > install from GuixSD installation could succeed(not sure if this is the > reason for failure). > > Since I have just this laptop, dedicating to GuixSD build from source is > blocking me for a very long long time(Just now I spent a week so in trying > to get it to completion, only to discover very late that a maintenance is > up in progress). Please suggest as to how should I go about, having GuixSD > installed along with preserving the older installations on my system? I have no experience with Dual boot GuixSD, sorry! Maybe someone else can help you though. There are plenty of people in #guix[2]. Don't hesitate to come and ask questions! If you don't get answers immediately, it's a good idea to stay anyway because people may reply hours later ;-) [2]: https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/contact/irc/ > Let me know if I can help with any other information from my side. though > new, I can always dig in to extract the necessary information. > > PS:- I am so new to FSF and its software, I may not sound as appropriate as > I should while putting up my concerns. So please feel free to comment, > advise or dictate anything that you may feel will let me into the right > direction. You're very welcome :-) Clément
