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[Manual installation] ‘mount /mnt’'s in the ‘Partitioning’ section.

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From: Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me <at> tobias.gr>
To: Bug guix <bug-guix <at> gnu.org>
Subject: [Manual installation] ‘mount /mnt’'s
 in the ‘Partitioning’ section.
Date: Thu, 16 May 2019 03:54:10 +0200

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Guix,

[This is for after 1.0.1, but I'd forget otherwise.]

This happened to a new user on IRC tonight, and I understand their 
logic.  After guided partitioning (using the installer), 
installation failed, and they decided to continue manually. 
Here's where they started:

 3.6 Manual Installation
 =======================

 …

 * Menu:

 * Keyboard Layout and Networking and Partitioning:: Initial 
 setup.
 * Proceeding with the Installation::  Installing.

Having just ‘partitioned’, they ‘proceeded’.  The first task in 
that section is ‘herd start cow-store’, which fails because /mnt 
isn't mounted yet.  According to our manual, that's also part of 
‘partitioning’.  Eh.  I get why, but would prefer to reorganise 
this a bit to make such errors less likely.

Kind regards,

T G-R

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