From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andy Wingo Subject: Re: how to "install" guixsd on a digitalocean server Date: Fri, 07 Apr 2017 16:14:36 +0200 Message-ID: <87y3vc5mpf.fsf@igalia.com> References: <87pogo8lqj.fsf@pobox.com> <86shlks49e.fsf@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:56721) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cwUf2-0001MF-AB for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Apr 2017 10:14:49 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cwUey-0004eO-VJ for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Apr 2017 10:14:48 -0400 Received: from pb-sasl1.pobox.com ([64.147.108.66]:53083 helo=sasl.smtp.pobox.com) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cwUey-0004e4-Rb for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Apr 2017 10:14:44 -0400 In-Reply-To: <86shlks49e.fsf@gmail.com> (myglc2@gmail.com's message of "Fri, 07 Apr 2017 10:04:29 -0400") 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: myglc2 Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org Hi :) On Fri 07 Apr 2017 16:04, myglc2 writes: > On 04/07/2017 at 14:07 Andy Wingo writes: > >> I just "installed" GuixSD on a DigitalOcean droplet. You can't actually >> install GuixSD; you have to mutate an existing installation into >> GuixSD. But fine. > [...] > > I upgraded Debian to GuixSD on a physical server in a similar way ... > > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2016-03/msg00354.html > > ... but I used 'guix system init' instead of 'guix system reconfigure'. > > I wonder, could that approach have been used in this situation to avoid > the need to "clean up the remaining Debian bits"? Neat. For me the answer is, I don't know :) I thought with guix system init you had to do a bunch of partitiony type things? Certainly if I had a blank scratch space I could do that. In hindsight it is something of a miracle that "reconfigure" worked on a previously non-GuixSD system. Strange. I will accept it though :) Andy