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From: Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr>
To: Mathieu Othacehe <m.othacehe@gmail.com>
Cc: Guix-devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Porting GuixSD to ARM article.
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2018 21:46:46 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180123204646.GC2720@jurong> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87vaftgc7t.fsf@gmail.com>

Hello,

On Tue, Jan 23, 2018 at 10:23:50AM +0100, Mathieu Othacehe wrote:
> >   Notice that the last section of the blog post does not solve the problem:
> >   As I realised by trial and error when trying to use a disk-image for a
> >   virtual machine, it really is only an installation-image, since user data
> >   is stored in an overlay file system that is lost upon reboot.
> It's only true if your image is including "%installation-services" that
> provides "cow-store-service". That's why in the mpd.scm from the article
> the system is not inherited from beaglebone-black-installation-os. By
> starting from mpd.scm you should be able to write a system config that
> can boot and be used directly without any further installation step.

I see, that is a very interesting observation! Is it documented anywhere?
A further naive question: How does it differ from a vm-image then?

> Thanks, I hope you will be able to produce a working GuixSD image for
> your target. Don't hesitate to ask other questions!

I should give it a try, once I have a bit of time, which probably means
not before the weekend.

Thanks!

Andreas

  reply	other threads:[~2018-01-23 20:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-12-22 13:12 Porting GuixSD to ARM article Mathieu Othacehe
2017-12-22 15:38 ` Vincent Legoll
2017-12-22 22:43   ` Mathieu Othacehe
2017-12-22 15:58 ` Pjotr Prins
2017-12-22 22:44   ` Mathieu Othacehe
2018-01-22 21:15 ` Andreas Enge
2018-01-22 21:51   ` Danny Milosavljevic
2018-01-23  9:29     ` Mathieu Othacehe
2018-01-23 10:04       ` Danny Milosavljevic
2018-01-23 10:42         ` Mathieu Othacehe
2018-01-23 11:51           ` Ricardo Wurmus
2018-01-23 18:35             ` Danny Milosavljevic
2018-01-23  9:23   ` Mathieu Othacehe
2018-01-23 20:46     ` Andreas Enge [this message]
2018-01-24  8:17       ` Mathieu Othacehe
2018-01-24 10:12         ` Andreas Enge

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