From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: pothos@riseup.net
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: GuixSD download options
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2017 17:37:36 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87fui6wppr.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a885beed-8579-83d2-db49-1555055d6171@riseup.net> (pothos@riseup.net's message of "Mon, 20 Mar 2017 20:18:47 +0100")
Hi,
pothos@riseup.net skribis:
> since the installation process is quite manual, takes long and ends in a
> VM image for users who don't want to replace their current system, I
> think there should be at least an option to download a tar file with the
> content of a preconfigured root file system.
The installation image is actually a full-blown GuixSD. You can run
‘guix package’ in it, etc.
Granted, you’re probably looking for something more directly usable,
with Xorg and stuff. We could publish such an image; the problem then
becomes disk space on the gnu.org servers. ;-)
That said, it’s easy to build one for you even if you don’t run GuixSD:
you can install Guix on your distro, whichever it is, and from there use
‘guix system vm’ to build a GuixSD image.
https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/html_node/Invoking-guix-system.html
Would that be helpful?
Ludo’.
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-03-20 19:18 GuixSD download options pothos
2017-03-21 16:37 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2017-03-21 17:28 ` pothos
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