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authorLudovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>2016-03-28 21:47:12 +0200
committerLudovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>2016-03-28 22:25:42 +0200
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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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@@ -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