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author | Jack Hill <jackhill@jackhill.us> | 2021-11-15 18:28:00 -0500 |
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committer | Jonathan Brielmaier <jonathan.brielmaier@web.de> | 2021-11-17 20:44:43 +0100 |
commit | 77f41b38fb15af8f6aa7491084af65aa7e921814 (patch) | |
tree | 7199340c89d596e14f8e403903b97a4c381d3d64 /README.org | |
parent | c79a4fe3d872be39a0ec377bdd43ff6c42ccc866 (diff) |
README.org: Add iso9660 image type.
* README.org (** Installation image): Document creating an iso9660 image
similar to the official Guix installation images and state differences between the
image types.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Brielmaier <jonathan.brielmaier@web.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'README.org')
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1 files changed, 15 insertions, 7 deletions
@@ -98,17 +98,25 @@ For some hardware the official Guix installation image won't do nonfree Linux kernel and nonfree firmware with the following command: #+begin_src sh +guix system image --image-type=iso9660 /path/to/this/channel/nongnu/system/install.scm +#+end_src + +Like the official Guix installation image, this will produce a read-only image +with any changes made stored in memory. As indicated below, you will need to +run ~guix pull~ to download the Nonguix package descriptions, so will need +enough memory to hold the cached channel code which can be several hundred +megabytes. As an alternative, you can create a writable image with the +following command: + +#+begin_src sh guix system image --image-size=7.2GiB /path/to/this/channel/nongnu/system/install.scm #+end_src -As indicated bellow, you will need to run ~guix pull~ to download the -Nonguix package descriptions. Some free space on your USB thumbdrive is -required for this operation to succeed. The ~--image-size~ option allows -you to specify the size of the image and, as such, to allocate free space -to it. The given value is purely indicative. It obviously depends on your -thumbdrive capacity. +The ~--image-size~ option allows you to specify the size of the image and, as +such, to allocate free space to it. The given value is purely indicative. It +obviously depends on your thumbdrive capacity. -Then you can write the generated disk image to a USB thumbdrive with: +Either type of image can be written to a USB thumbdrive with: #+BEGIN_SRC sh # NOTE: This example assumes your thumbdrive is recognized by Linux as /dev/sdb. |