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authorJack Hill <jackhill@jackhill.us>2021-11-15 18:28:00 -0500
committerJonathan Brielmaier <jonathan.brielmaier@web.de>2021-11-17 20:44:43 +0100
commit77f41b38fb15af8f6aa7491084af65aa7e921814 (patch)
tree7199340c89d596e14f8e403903b97a4c381d3d64 /README.org
parentc79a4fe3d872be39a0ec377bdd43ff6c42ccc866 (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>
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@@ -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.