On Sat, Feb 27, 2016 at 06:27:32PM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> Andreas Enge skribis:
> > One of the doc patches I just pushed has added this reminder.
> Really? I was referring to this bit from 2014:
Indeed I am mistaken; I also only find the snippet you quote.
Sorry for
Esteban Enrique skribis:
> I am a relative newcomer to GNU/Linux (4 years around) and I have been
> wanting to use GuixSD for the past weeks but I have been having
> trouble. I think this is due to unclear documents for beginners (like
> myself).
>
> First,
Yes, and unfortunately it is far from concrete and simple at this point. It
basically says 'the drive should be partitioned.' I think adding a quick
step like you say should be sufficient without going into too much detail.
It just a suggestion, or an example config.
On Mon, Feb 15, 2016 at 5:28
Leo Famulari writes:
> On Mon, Feb 15, 2016 at 02:33:47PM -0500, Esteban Enrique wrote:
[...]
>> First, formatting the drive. I have some experience with Arch Linux, so I
>> had a general sense of how to use fdisk. However, for the vast majority of
>> those who don't know
Esteban Enrique writes:
> On 02/15/2016 05:00 PM, Leo Famulari wrote:
>> Personally, I feel a tension between improving the fdisk manual so that
>> beginners can use it and just giving step-by-step instructions in our
>> manual.
>>
>> I really don't like Arch's
Leo Famulari writes:
> On Mon, Feb 15, 2016 at 02:33:47PM -0500, Esteban Enrique wrote:
>>
>> First, formatting the drive. I have some experience with Arch Linux, so I
>> had a general sense of how to use fdisk. However, for the vast majority of
>> those who don't know
On 02/15/2016 05:00 PM, Leo Famulari wrote:
Personally, I feel a tension between improving the fdisk manual so that
beginners can use it and just giving step-by-step instructions in our
manual.
I really don't like Arch's approach of working around poor upstream
manuals by giving step-by-step
On Mon, Feb 15, 2016 at 02:33:47PM -0500, Esteban Enrique wrote:
> I am a relative newcomer to GNU/Linux (4 years around) and I have been
> wanting to use GuixSD for the past weeks but I have been having trouble. I
> think this is due to unclear documents for beginners (like myself).
Thanks for
I am a relative newcomer to GNU/Linux (4 years around) and I have been
wanting to use GuixSD for the past weeks but I have been having trouble.
I think this is due to unclear documents for beginners (like myself).
First, formatting the drive. I have some experience with Arch Linux,
so I had