Re: System installation from a USB stick

[Adam Pribyl]

On Mon, 21 Jul 2014, Adam Pribyl wrote:

> this involved
> mount /dev/sdf1 /mnt/
> cp -a /gnu /mnt/
> mount -o bind /mnt/gnu /gnu
> from now on, the target /mnt/gnu is filling up during guix system init.
>
> it ends up with
>
> initializing operating system under "/mnt"
> copying '/gnu......glibc-2.19.locales'...
> 2035 operations
> Bus error
>
> Thats it, the installation is not complete, there is just /gnu on target 
> drive.

OK, solved. This was a bad idea to mount bind /mnt/gnu to /gnu, using a 
directory with a different name on /mnt/ - finished the installation. Just 
it needs twice the free space on target drive.

> Adam Pribyl

Adam Pribyl