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08/67: doc: Document the graphical installer. |
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Wed, 16 Jan 2019 19:00:36 -0500 (EST) |
civodul pushed a commit to branch wip-newt-installer
in repository guix.
commit c925c8b65429a94a24cc3392f498514ebc85c490
Author: Mathieu Othacehe <address@hidden>
Date: Fri Nov 23 22:53:39 2018 +0900
doc: Document the graphical installer.
* doc/guix.texi (Preparing for Installation): Mention the graphical
installer.
---
doc/guix.texi | 20 ++++++++++++++------
1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi
index 57844d4..ee7cf1d 100644
--- a/doc/guix.texi
+++ b/doc/guix.texi
@@ -9328,12 +9328,20 @@ GuixSD in a virtual machine (VM).
@subsection Preparing for Installation
Once you have successfully booted your computer using the installation medium,
-you should end up with a root prompt. Several console TTYs are configured
-and can be used to run commands as root. TTY2 shows this documentation,
-browsable using the Info reader commands (@pxref{Top,,, info-stnd,
-Stand-alone GNU Info}). The installation system runs the GPM mouse
-daemon, which allows you to select text with the left mouse button and
-to paste it with the middle button.
+you should end up with the welcome page of the graphical installer. The
+graphical installer is a text-based user interface built upon the newt
+library. It shall guide you through all the different steps needed to install
+GNU GuixSD. However, as the graphical installer is still under heavy
+development, you might want to fallback to the original, shell based install
+process, by switching to TTYs 3 to 6 with the shortcuts CTRL-ALT-F[3-6]. The
+following sections describe the installation procedure assuming you're using
+one of those TTYs. They are configured and can be used to run commands as
+root.
+
+TTY2 shows this documentation, browsable using the Info reader commands
+(@pxref{Top,,, info-stnd, Stand-alone GNU Info}). The installation system
+runs the GPM mouse daemon, which allows you to select text with the left mouse
+button and to paste it with the middle button.
@quotation Note
Installation requires access to the Internet so that any missing
- 37/67: installer: locale: Make clear that the point is to select a glibc locale., (continued)
- 37/67: installer: locale: Make clear that the point is to select a glibc locale., guix-commits, 2019/01/16
- 26/67: installer: Add new pages., guix-commits, 2019/01/16
- 07/67: configure: Disable installer build by default., guix-commits, 2019/01/16
- 30/67: installer: Add user module., guix-commits, 2019/01/16
- 50/67: installer: partition: Fix typo., guix-commits, 2019/01/16
- 49/67: installer: partition: Fix swaping and use syscalls., guix-commits, 2019/01/16
- 53/67: file-systems: Add read-luks-partition-uuid., guix-commits, 2019/01/16
- 46/67: installer: Display an eventual backtrace in a page., guix-commits, 2019/01/16
- 22/67: installer: Add configuration formatter., guix-commits, 2019/01/16
- 57/67: installer: parted: Do not call BLKRRPART on loop devices., guix-commits, 2019/01/16
- 08/67: doc: Document the graphical installer.,
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- 03/67: gnu: kmscon: Add runtime keymap update support., guix-commits, 2019/01/16
- 27/67: installer: Redirect to TTY3 root shell for unguided install., guix-commits, 2019/01/16
- 13/67: installer: Fix locale installation., guix-commits, 2019/01/16
- 29/67: installer: Fix comments., guix-commits, 2019/01/16
- 25/67: installer: Add hostname., guix-commits, 2019/01/16
- 32/67: installer: Reorder POTFILES.in, guix-commits, 2019/01/16
- 38/67: installer: locale: Set English as the default language., guix-commits, 2019/01/16
- 34/67: installer: Remove group selection in user page., guix-commits, 2019/01/16
- 40/67: installer: keymap: Do not fail on non-kmscon terminals., guix-commits, 2019/01/16
- 45/67: installer: Make exit button optional for run-file-textbox-page., guix-commits, 2019/01/16