doc: Mention the tarball URL and clarify binary installation steps.

* doc/guix.texi (Binary Installation): Mention the tarball URL.  Clarify what
the steps do.

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@ -789,12 +789,20 @@ chmod +x guix-install.sh
The script goes through the following steps:
@itemize
@item Downloading and extracting the binary tarball
@item Setting up the build daemon
@item Making @command{guix} command available to non-root users
@item Configuring substitute servers
@end itemize
@enumerate
@item
Downloading the binary tarball from
@indicateurl{@value{BASE-URL}/guix-binary-@value{VERSION}.x86_64-linux.tar.xz}
(where @code{x86_64-linux} can be replaced with @code{i686-linux} for an
@code{i686} (32-bits) machine already running the kernel Linux, and so
on---@pxref{GNU Distribution}) and extracting it.
@item
Setting up the build daemon (@pxref{Setting Up the Daemon}).
@item
Making the @command{guix} command available to non-root users.
@item
Configuring substitute servers (@pxref{Official Substitute Servers}).
@end enumerate
@quotation Note
By default, @file{guix-install.sh} will configure Guix to download