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| author | Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> | 2016-03-28 21:47:12 +0200 |
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| committer | Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> | 2016-03-28 22:25:42 +0200 |
| commit | b397c0d58af641911deb8fd28c2543b68b5275b7 (patch) | |
| tree | af72bc021c1e99a3cd24ae1b5458c837cacfc741 /doc/guix.texi | |
| parent | ff925d37e0746de862551eea3e41c4c586d62af4 (diff) | |
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doc: Clarify 'cow-store'.
Suggested by Chris Marusich <cmmarusich@gmail.com>.
* doc/guix.texi (Proceeding with the Installation): Clarify what
'cow-store' is about.
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diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi index 62ca82b609..71ba4faa98 100644 --- a/doc/guix.texi +++ b/doc/guix.texi @@ -6033,9 +6033,11 @@ With the target partitions ready and the target root mounted on herd start cow-store /mnt @end example -This makes @file{/gnu/store} copy-on-write, such that packages added to -it during the installation phase are written to the target disk rather -than kept in memory. +This makes @file{/gnu/store} copy-on-write, such that packages added to it +during the installation phase are written to the target disk on @file{/mnt} +rather than kept in memory. This is necessary because the first phase of +the @command{guix system init} command (see below) entails downloads or +builds to @file{/gnu/store} which, initially, is an in-memory file system. Next, you have to edit a file and provide the declaration of the operating system to be installed. To |