Re: feedback as solicited by Guix manual (Section 7.1.5)

[Leo Famulari]

On Sun, May 29, 2016 at 08:45:18PM -0400, Ethan Stefan Day wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I just got finished setting up GuixSD on one of these
> <https://www.thinkpenguin.com/gnu-linux/penguin-adelie-gnu-linux-laptop>, to
> use as a fun/hacking box.  I hit a bump with partitioning the drive, but
> managed to figure it out.  The Guix manual refers to the Parted manual
> for an overview of partitioning, but the Parted manual no longer
> provides that and instead references some other manual without providing
> a link.  It was rather comical:

I found some instructions in the Parted manual, specifically in section
2: Using Parted. If that wasn't helpful, do you think we should link to
manuals for fdisk or cfdisk also or instead?

> 
> "Error, no bios_grub partition.  Grub not installed."
> "Oh, well I made the root drive bootable.  Lets just reboot and see what
> happens."
> ...
> "BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP..."
> 
> I am running Gnome, and aside from video tearing and Icecat not
> appearing in the activities view, things seem to be working fine.  I'll
> be looking for ways to contribute once I have a better understanding of
> the system.  Thanks for putting this together, and a particular thanks
> to whoever packaged GHC (I have read that bootstrapping it can be tricky).
> 
> -Ethan Day
>