* GuixSD download options
@ 2017-03-20 19:18 pothos
2017-03-21 16:37 ` Ludovic Courtès
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From: pothos @ 2017-03-20 19:18 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: guix-devel
Hello,
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.
Then one could just extract it and run with systemd-nspawn -bD folder
(or if needed, use a new network device to support ssh if login with
machinectl is not enough).
Additonally a VM image would also be interesting.
Maybe this was already considered?
Regards,
Kai
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* Re: GuixSD download options
2017-03-20 19:18 GuixSD download options pothos
@ 2017-03-21 16:37 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-03-21 17:28 ` pothos
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From: Ludovic Courtès @ 2017-03-21 16:37 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: pothos; +Cc: guix-devel
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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