From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) Subject: Re: Please put the system-configuration into the image Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2017 22:48:13 +0200 Message-ID: <877ex65lgy.fsf@gnu.org> References: <2af008a3-ba55-1894-4cad-3afee197b225@crazy-compilers.com> <20170905180529.yk2kphegofhu7rft@abyayala> <1ee6f79c-a1b2-fe38-7cb2-e3ca4220985f@crazy-compilers.com> <87h8wezz9n.fsf@gnu.org> <9d3029d4-8069-4c95-702e-6194f7fa8cd2@crazy-compilers.com> <20170907124306.yy7seidv66ajlkka@abyayala> <8d2454ec-c878-0e30-fa06-5fd00f017560@crazy-compilers.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:46227) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dr99M-0005Xn-SC for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 10 Sep 2017 16:48:18 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dr99L-0003lE-Ok for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 10 Sep 2017 16:48:16 -0400 In-Reply-To: <8d2454ec-c878-0e30-fa06-5fd00f017560@crazy-compilers.com> (Hartmut Goebel's message of "Fri, 8 Sep 2017 12:11:45 +0200") List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Hartmut Goebel Cc: guix-devel Hi, Hartmut Goebel skribis: > If somebody is downloading the ISO-image and installing GuixSD on some > machine =E2=80=93 stand-alone, no other GuixSD systems around: He/she wou= ld > store the system-config somewhere on the machine, change it and > "reconfigure" and hack around. (At least this is what I would do.) So > why there is no starting-point for system-config in the image? Why would > the user need to download it from some (no quite obvious) internet-addres= s? As a user, you do *not* want to use the installation OS=C2=B9 as a template for your own system: it=E2=80=99s way too specific to a live installation i= mage and more complicated than a =E2=80=9Cregular=E2=80=9D system. Instead, you=E2=80=99ll want to use one of the three templates that are provided. They=E2=80=99re in the manual=C2=B2 (which is on tty2 when you= =E2=80=99re installing), and also in /etc/configuration during the installation. No need to download them from a non-obvious internet address. Am I missing something? Thanks, Lud=E2=80=99. =C2=B9 https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/tree/gnu/system/install.s= cm#n296 =C2=B2 https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/html_node/Using-the-Configu= ration-System.html