Re: Help installing on Cubox-i/Arm Boards

[Julien Lepiller]

Hi Ryan!

Installing on armhf/aarch64 SBCs is not easy. I'm not sure the graphical 
installer is available for these platforms.

The tarball you found is for installing Guix, the package manager, on top of 
another distro. It's not the distro itself.

This blog post might help figuring out what you need for generating an 
installer image for your board: 
https://guix.gnu.org/en/blog/2019/guix-on-an-arm-board/

For generating the correct image from x86, you'll need to cross-compile the 
installer with --target=arm-linux-gnueabihf (for armhf).

Good luck!

On May 4, 2022 6:56:26 AM GMT+02:00, ryan <rysa88@posteo.net> wrote:
>Hi all
>
>First of all I am completely new to quix (I use parabola Gnu/linux-
>libre), so my apologies if I ask some questions that might seem very
>obvious.
>
>I would like to build a disk image for a Cubox-i variant that I have,
>it currently has nothing on it. If setup guix on my x86_64
>device/laptop using the guided installer, can I build it from there
>easily using the instructions here?:
>https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/Building-the-Installation-Image.html
>I also see there is a binary tarball, but not sure what to do with it?
>
>or am I jumping ahead? I see that uboot in guix is available for the
>cubox-i, but I am not sure where I need to start?
>
>Any help with getting guix setup on the armvh device would be most
>useful and appreciated.
>
>Many Thanks
>Ryan
>