From: raingloom <raingloom@riseup.net>
To: Gurjeet Singh <gurjeet@singh.im>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Self-contained GuixSD Installer
Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2021 19:06:48 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210322190648.6abbc784@riseup.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CABwTF4UGyBkYXUPBdk8uV9gs0ViEFwGPDZVF0ELjWM47bqUMXg@mail.gmail.com>
On Sun, 21 Mar 2021 18:56:05 -0700
Gurjeet Singh <gurjeet@singh.im> wrote:
> Does a self-contained GuixSD installer exist? I tried running GuixSD
> in a VM (in VBox, on macOS), and for that I downloaded the ISO image.
> The ISO image, after a few prompts, then tries to install everything
> from the internet.
>
> If everything is being downloaded and installed from the internet, why
> does the image have to be so huge (~500MB
> guix-system-install-1.2.0.x86_64-linux.iso.xz)?
>
> Is it possible to deliver the /gnu/store on the ISO so that a minimal
> system can be installed and started, without having to connect to the
> Internet? The user is free to install and upgrade packages from the
> internet, but they should be able to run GuixSD without the Internet
> being a hard requirement.
>
> Best regards,
> --
> Gurjeet Singh http://gurjeet.singh.im/
>
I think the installer does a `guix pull` before running `guix system
init`, so it has to download fresh packages.
I haven't used the graphical installer, but at leat that's how the old
school CLI install worked, at least as far as I remember.
You could just not guix pull, or if you did, you could pull the
specific commit that was used to build the system.
At least in theory.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-03-23 0:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-03-22 1:56 Self-contained GuixSD Installer Gurjeet Singh
2021-03-22 18:06 ` raingloom [this message]
2021-03-23 14:14 ` Ludovic Courtès
2021-03-23 16:26 ` Joshua Branson
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