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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. |