From: Andy Wingo <wingo@igalia.com>
To: myglc2 <myglc2@gmail.com>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: recommend the binary install as the path to guixSD?
Date: Thu, 03 Mar 2016 10:11:47 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bn6wapt8.fsf@igalia.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87oaawjqoz.fsf@gmail.com> (myglc2@gmail.com's message of "Wed, 02 Mar 2016 20:27:56 -0500")
On Thu 03 Mar 2016 02:27, myglc2 <myglc2@gmail.com> writes:
> Isn't it straightforward to install guixSD on a new hard drive if you
> have Guix running on a "foreign" distro?
Maybe this is the right thing. Maybe the fastest path to a good GuixSD
installation is via a minimal debian install + detrout's Guix package!
That said it's a bit terrifying in some ways. I guess you could always
work onto a separate partition, that would limit some of the terror. I
moved a Debian or some other system over to NixOS at one point and
whooo, running "mv /etc /old-etc" and similar commands can give you
pause!
But, I was also skeptical of the "just unpack the /gnu/store tarball and
copy the sqlite file" approach, and that has turned out to work really
well, so maybe this is a thing!
Andy
prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-03-03 9:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-03-03 1:27 recommend the binary install as the path to guixSD? myglc2
2016-03-03 2:36 ` Chris Marusich
2016-03-03 2:55 ` Jookia
2016-03-03 9:11 ` Andy Wingo [this message]
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