Re: [PATCH v4 08/14] release: Compress installation images and remove live image

Alyssa Ross
2025-11-28T11:09:23Z

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Demi Marie Obenour <demiobenour@gmail.com> writes:

> On 11/25/25 08:19, Alyssa Ross wrote:
>> Demi Marie Obenour <demiobenour@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> +=== Building The Installer
>>>
>>> First, you need to build the Spectrum image:
>>>
>>> @@ -62,8 +82,7 @@ installer image. Write that image to a USB drive, for example using
>>> `dd` (command line) or
>>> https://gitlab.com/bztsrc/usbimager[`usbimager`] (graphical, available
>>> in Nixpkgs). Boot your system from the USB drive, and you should see
>>> -a menu allowing you to choose between "Try Spectrum" and "Install
>>> -Spectrum".
>>> +a menu allowing you to "Install Spectrum".
>>
>> This should be updated to demonstrate release/installer rather than
>> release/combined, since the latter is now pointless and due for removal.
>
> Unfortunately, release/installer is broken and is even in main.

Can you tell me how to reproduce? With $(nix-build release/installer/run-vm.nix)
I can run through the installer just fine…

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