From: Joshua Branson <jbranso@dismail.de>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: Gurjeet Singh <gurjeet@singh.im>, guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Self-contained GuixSD Installer
Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2021 12:26:19 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87o8f9ltuc.fsf@dismail.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <878s6ehs86.fsf@gnu.org> ("Ludovic Courtès"'s message of "Tue, 23 Mar 2021 15:14:49 +0100")
Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:
> Hi,
>
> Gurjeet Singh <gurjeet@singh.im> skribis:
>
>> Does a self-contained GuixSD installer exist? I tried running GuixSD
>> in a VM (in VBox, on macOS), and for that I downloaded the ISO image.
>> The ISO image, after a few prompts, then tries to install everything
>> from the internet.
>
> The Guix System (formerly known as “GuixSD”) installer cannot be
> entirely self-contained because there are many different choices users
> can make from there: desktop environments, network services, etc.
>
> However, if you choose a bare-bones, non-graphical kind of system
> installation, most if not all of it is already in the ISO.
That's personally how I install guix system. I find it's easier to
install the bare-bones.scm...Then after rebooting I switch my config to
my actual config file.
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-03-22 1:56 Self-contained GuixSD Installer Gurjeet Singh
2021-03-22 18:06 ` raingloom
2021-03-23 14:14 ` Ludovic Courtès
2021-03-23 16:26 ` Joshua Branson [this message]
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