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Requires custom, manual, obscuredly-documented steps to use #25

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ieure opened this issue Oct 31, 2023 · 1 comment
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Requires custom, manual, obscuredly-documented steps to use #25

ieure opened this issue Oct 31, 2023 · 1 comment

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@ieure
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ieure commented Oct 31, 2023

What I did:

  1. Downloaded the installer.
  2. Put it on a USB stick.
  3. Booted the installer image.
  4. Installed Guix,

Expected behavior: The resulting install should have working WiFi.

Actual behavior: It doesn't work, because the installer installs the wrong kernel.

I eventually found this documentation, which explains how you have to bail from the installer entirely, edit some stuff by hand, and complete the rest of the installation manually. The "Instructions" section of the README in this repo doesn't incorporate this documentaiton, link to it, or even mention that any of this is necessary. I guess there was an assumption that people would find the documentation first, but this isn't always the case.

The installer shouldn't require any of this manual hackery at all. It should install a working system.

In the mean time, as a stopgap, this repo should explain how to use it, until the installer is fixed so it installs the correct kernel.

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daviwil commented Nov 1, 2023

Yes, I should link to the installation tutorial, thanks for mentioning that. Not much that can be done right now about the "hackery" since we would need to change the actual installer code to accomplish that.

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