From b397c0d58af641911deb8fd28c2543b68b5275b7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Ludovic=20Court=C3=A8s?= Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2016 21:47:12 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] doc: Clarify 'cow-store'. Suggested by Chris Marusich . * doc/guix.texi (Proceeding with the Installation): Clarify what 'cow-store' is about. --- doc/guix.texi | 8 +++++--- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) 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