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diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi index c40d153466..41fee3524c 100644 --- a/doc/guix.texi +++ b/doc/guix.texi @@ -35039,15 +35039,6 @@ QEMU monitor and the VM. @cindex System images, creation in various formats @cindex Creating system images in various formats @item image -@itemx docker-image -Return a virtual machine, disk image, or Docker image of the operating -system declared in @var{file} that stands alone. By default, -@command{guix system} estimates the size of the image needed to store -the system, but you can use the @option{--image-size} option to specify -a value. Docker images are built to contain exactly what they need, so -the @option{--image-size} option is ignored in the case of -@code{docker-image}. - @cindex image, creating disk images The @code{image} command can produce various image types. The image type can be selected using the @option{--image-type} option. It @@ -35093,11 +35084,11 @@ uses the SeaBIOS BIOS by default, expecting a bootloader to be installed in the Master Boot Record (MBR). @cindex docker-image, creating docker images -When using @code{docker-image}, a Docker image is produced. Guix builds -the image from scratch, not from a pre-existing Docker base image. As a -result, it contains @emph{exactly} what you define in the operating -system configuration file. You can then load the image and launch a -Docker container using commands like the following: +When using the @code{docker} image type, a Docker image is produced. +Guix builds the image from scratch, not from a pre-existing Docker base +image. As a result, it contains @emph{exactly} what you define in the +operating system configuration file. You can then load the image and +launch a Docker container using commands like the following: @example image_id="$(docker load < guix-system-docker-image.tar.gz)" |