Re: wip blog post: running Guix System on ARM

2019-11-18 Thread Pjotr Prins
On Sun, Nov 17, 2019 at 08:43:33PM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Hello! > > Julien Lepiller skribis: > > > Hi, attached is a draft for a blog post (or a section in the cookbook) > > for explaining how to install the Guix System on an ARM board. WDYT? > > I really like it! Yes, it makes we

Re: wip blog post: running Guix System on ARM

2019-11-17 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello! Julien Lepiller skribis: > Hi, attached is a draft for a blog post (or a section in the cookbook) > for explaining how to install the Guix System on an ARM board. WDYT? I really like it! Nitpick: s/grub/GRUB/ and s/u-?boot/U-Boot/ (when referring to the software). Perhaps a reference

Re: wip blog post: running Guix System on ARM

2019-11-17 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi, Pierre Neidhardt skribis: >> ### The kernel modules >> >> In order for Guix to be able to load the system from the initramfs, it will >> probably need > > Maybe define initramfs? Or just link to > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Initramfs. I’d suggest writing “initial RAM disk (initrd)”

Re: wip blog post: running Guix System on ARM

2019-11-17 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello, Danny Milosavljevic skribis: > On Wed, 13 Nov 2019 22:21:54 +0100 > Julien Lepiller wrote: > >> Hi, attached is a draft for a blog post (or a section in the cookbook) >> for explaining how to install the Guix System on an ARM board. WDYT? > > I guess it can't hurt to describe this stuff

Re: wip blog post: running Guix System on ARM

2019-11-17 Thread Julien Lepiller
Le Thu, 14 Nov 2019 12:05:34 +0100, "pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" a écrit : > On Thu, Nov 14, 2019 at 10:29:22AM +0100, Pierre Neidhardt wrote: > > Neat, thanks for this article! > > > > Yes, thank you! I have not tried yet though. > > Maybe add the top add instructions what to do if

Re: wip blog post: running Guix System on ARM

2019-11-14 Thread Danny Milosavljevic
Hi Julien, On Wed, 13 Nov 2019 22:21:54 +0100 Julien Lepiller wrote: > Hi, attached is a draft for a blog post (or a section in the cookbook) > for explaining how to install the Guix System on an ARM board. WDYT? I guess it can't hurt to describe this stuff as it works now, but the goal is

Re: wip blog post: running Guix System on ARM

2019-11-14 Thread pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
On Thu, Nov 14, 2019 at 10:29:22AM +0100, Pierre Neidhardt wrote: > Neat, thanks for this article! > Yes, thank you! I have not tried yet though. Maybe add the top add instructions what to do if installation fails (i.e. flash the SD with another operating system and start anew). > > Make

Re: wip blog post: running Guix System on ARM

2019-11-14 Thread zimoun
Hi, Thank you for the article! I would find interesting to point somewhere in your post to these previous blog posts [1] [2] [3] about ARM and Guix. :-) [1] https://guix.gnu.org/blog/2017/porting-guixsd-to-armv7/ [2] http://guix.gnu.org/blog/2018/guix-on-android/ [3]

Re: wip blog post: running Guix System on ARM

2019-11-14 Thread Giovanni Biscuolo
Hi Julien, Julien Lepiller writes: > Hi, attached is a draft for a blog post (or a section in the cookbook) > for explaining how to install the Guix System on an ARM board. WDYT? LOL! \O/ This should be a cookbook section, and released soon unless other people find some error or important

wip blog post: running Guix System on ARM

2019-11-13 Thread Julien Lepiller
Hi, attached is a draft for a blog post (or a section in the cookbook) for explaining how to install the Guix System on an ARM board. WDYT? Guix on an ARM Board Increasingly people discovering Guix want to try it on an ARM board, instead of their x86 computer. There might be