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author | Pinka pallini <chthonic_one@protonmail.com> | 2021-02-20 17:29:37 +0000 |
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committer | Jonathan Brielmaier <jonathan.brielmaier@web.de> | 2021-02-21 12:43:31 +0100 |
commit | a139a6e0669a8e5954f680b5019524b62f510ce9 (patch) | |
tree | 4897a1796f0ecb7062280f270ce271a87c38e4a7 /README.org | |
parent | d8c663800de10bc4c8180acd71379e061c6f0458 (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>
Diffstat (limited to 'README.org')
-rw-r--r-- | README.org | 9 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions
@@ -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 |