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| author | Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name> | 2017-06-17 01:13:13 -0400 |
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| committer | Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name> | 2017-06-17 18:04:32 -0400 |
| commit | 01049bb0c1f3f69afb8d1782f99ca5c0adaed946 (patch) | |
| tree | 03ef6bf5200ea06083b83f77d658e38cd7ac918f /doc/guix.texi | |
| parent | 6c8b802f9c8ef3beb41d468eec8d2a2948efdb9c (diff) | |
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doc: Suggest a QEMU image size large enough for the system examples.
* doc/guix.texi (Installing GuixSD in a Virtual Machine): Increase suggested
image size from 5 GB to 50 GB.
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diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi index db0e2fbd78..4933a98ddb 100644 --- a/doc/guix.texi +++ b/doc/guix.texi @@ -7796,11 +7796,11 @@ Create a disk image that will hold the installed system. To make a qcow2-formatted disk image, use the @command{qemu-img} command: @example -qemu-img create -f qcow2 guixsd.img 5G +qemu-img create -f qcow2 guixsd.img 50G @end example -The resulting file will be much smaller than 5GB, but it will grow as -the virtualized storage device is filled up. +The resulting file will be much smaller than 50 GB (typically less than +1 MB), but it will grow as the virtualized storage device is filled up. @item Boot the USB installation image in an VM: |