From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andy Wingo Subject: Re: recommend the binary install as the path to guixSD? Date: Thu, 03 Mar 2016 10:11:47 +0100 Message-ID: <87bn6wapt8.fsf@igalia.com> References: <87oaawjqoz.fsf@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:40087) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1abPJA-0006Ul-Af for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Mar 2016 04:12:33 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1abPJ7-0005wI-2M for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Mar 2016 04:12:32 -0500 Received: from pb-sasl0.int.icgroup.com ([208.72.237.25]:50603 helo=sasl.smtp.pobox.com) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1abPJ6-0005kn-TX for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Mar 2016 04:12:28 -0500 In-Reply-To: <87oaawjqoz.fsf@gmail.com> (myglc2@gmail.com's message of "Wed, 02 Mar 2016 20:27:56 -0500") 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-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: myglc2 Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org On Thu 03 Mar 2016 02:27, myglc2 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