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From: Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me@tobias.gr>
To: help-guix@gnu.org, Greg Davidson <greg.davidson@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: How can I install gnu guix to a usb flashdrive to run as a live system?
Date: Wed, 11 May 2022 11:04:41 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <180C3E8F-0C9D-4CC3-B8E5-DF4979F5CE95@tobias.gr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+2rpgksgpmCbO6iCoGQij--+bcoudo9Yx5L-jaLQR2Qjf7Rog@mail.gmail.com>

Hi Greg,

I've seen different definitions of 'live system', so:

How does the system you want differ from a regular

  # guix system init system.scm /my/usb/drive

?

One clear way is that AFAIR there's no documented way (yet) to pass '--removable' to grub-install, so you'll have to manually rename  the grub.efi to bootx64.efi.  Annoying but doable.

By 'older and newer laptops', do you mean that you expect Guix to install and maintain both a UEFI and a BIOS GRUB at once?  I don't think multiple bootloaders are easy to configure (yet) in Guix, but this too should be possible to support.

There's also the 'read-only OS image' definition of live system, as created by

  # guix system image -t iso9660 system.scm

used to create the Guix System installer.  Unless you declare, e.g., a writable /home partition, all changes will be lost on reboot.

My guess is that's not what you want and it's not 'self-contained' in that it can't update itself.

Kind regards,

T G-R

Sent on the go.  Excuse or enjoy my brevity.


  reply	other threads:[~2022-05-11 11:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-05-10  5:19 How can I install gnu guix to a usb flashdrive to run as a live system? Greg Davidson
2022-05-11 11:04 ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice [this message]
2022-05-12 15:27   ` 白い熊

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