From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) Subject: Re: GuixSD download options Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2017 17:37:36 +0100 Message-ID: <87fui6wppr.fsf@gnu.org> References: 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]:56168) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cqMn2-00026X-Ik for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Mar 2017 12:37:45 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cqMmx-0006C6-Tc for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Mar 2017 12:37:44 -0400 In-Reply-To: (pothos@riseup.net's message of "Mon, 20 Mar 2017 20:18:47 +0100") 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: pothos@riseup.net Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org 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 =E2=80=98guix package=E2=80=99 in it, etc. Granted, you=E2=80=99re 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=E2=80=99s easy to build one for you even if you don=E2=80=99t= run GuixSD: you can install Guix on your distro, whichever it is, and from there use =E2=80=98guix system vm=E2=80=99 to build a GuixSD image. https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/html_node/Invoking-guix-system.h= tml Would that be helpful? Ludo=E2=80=99.