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authorPinka pallini <chthonic_one@protonmail.com>2021-02-20 17:29:37 +0000
committerJonathan Brielmaier <jonathan.brielmaier@web.de>2021-02-21 12:43:31 +0100
commita139a6e0669a8e5954f680b5019524b62f510ce9 (patch)
tree4897a1796f0ecb7062280f270ce271a87c38e4a7 /README.org
parentd8c663800de10bc4c8180acd71379e061c6f0458 (diff)
README.org: Add free space to installation image.
Discussed at https://gitlab.com/nonguix/nonguix/-/issues/91. * README.org (** Installation image): Add `--image-size=7.2GiB` and an explanation why. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Brielmaier <jonathan.brielmaier@web.de>
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@@ -98,9 +98,16 @@ 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 disk-image /path/to/this/channel/nongnu/system/install.scm
+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.
+
Then you can write the generated disk image to a USB thumbdrive with:
#+BEGIN_SRC sh