From: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com>
To: Felix Lechner via <help-guix@gnu.org>
Cc: "pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" <pelzflorian@pelzflorian.de>,
Felix Lechner <felix.lechner@lease-up.com>,
Gottfried <gottfried@posteo.de>
Subject: Re: to save my Guix System installation
Date: Wed, 24 May 2023 20:35:50 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87edn5gsd5.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFHYt54eBxjaBrgwe=raVU_oH32yWRVTa4c38U03QuM7qSkQJA@mail.gmail.com> (Felix Lechner via's message of "Tue, 23 May 2023 10:17:37 -0700")
Hi Felix,
Felix Lechner via <help-guix@gnu.org> writes:
> Hi Florian,
>
> On Tue, May 23, 2023 at 9:33 AM pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
> <pelzflorian@pelzflorian.de> wrote:
>>
>> yes, making a backup is good.
>
> I don't think Gottfried is making a backup. I think he is leaving us.
>
> We failed a beginner who is absolutely dedicated to free software.
Let's try to provide value in our replies, or at least stay positive
:-). It seems Gottfried is looking for a way to keep their Guix System
available along other GNU/Linux systems.
As Florian already mentioned, the challenge will be in configuring the
bootloader. For moving Guix itself, you could copy its root file system
using 'cp -a', or opt to reinstall from your config.scm as already
mentioned up-thread. Sadly, for the complex part (the bootloader
configuration), I'll leave it to someone more knowledgeable than myself
to provide concrete answers, but I believe you'll want to read on
something called multi-boot. There's a GRUB example here [0].
Good luck!
[0] https://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/grub/html_node/Multi_002dboot-manual-config.html
--
Thanks,
Maxim
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-05-25 0:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-05-23 10:50 to save my Guix System installation Gottfried
2023-05-23 16:32 ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2023-05-23 17:17 ` Felix Lechner via
2023-05-24 16:16 ` Gottfried
2023-05-24 16:38 ` Felix Lechner via
2023-05-25 0:35 ` Maxim Cournoyer [this message]
2023-05-25 9:39 ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2023-05-25 9:42 ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2023-05-24 1:09 ` Skyler
2023-05-24 22:28 ` Soren Stoutner via
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