From a139a6e0669a8e5954f680b5019524b62f510ce9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Pinka pallini Date: Sat, 20 Feb 2021 17:29:37 +0000 Subject: 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 --- README.org | 9 ++++++++- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'README.org') diff --git a/README.org b/README.org index 37601c9..6331513 100644 --- a/README.org +++ b/README.org @@ -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 -- cgit v1.2.3