From: wolf <wolf@wolfsden.cz>
To: Josh Marshall <joshua.r.marshall.1991@gmail.com>
Cc: jbranso@dismail.de, help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Is there a post or blog on how to convert from a distro to guix losslessly
Date: Sun, 8 Oct 2023 00:29:46 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZSHb2sLJctRSX29V@ws> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFkJGRcLi-gmvoA4h+3iyDTsfXOX9Dx1hgKERo4UAsewtSP8Sg@mail.gmail.com>
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On 2023-10-07 15:55:29 -0400, Josh Marshall wrote:
> I'm not looking to live that much on the edge!
I personally did the conversion by backing the drive to a portable USB disk,
doing clean install and copying the files back.
That is what will most likely work. In place conversion are possible (I am
sure, even if I am unsure how exactly), but will definitely be somewhat hairy
and will recommend backing the data first anyway...
>
> On Sat, Oct 7, 2023, 11:17 AM <jbranso@dismail.de> wrote:
>
> > October 3, 2023 11:51 PM, "Josh Marshall" <
> > joshua.r.marshall.1991@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > I have a base minimal system of Ubuntu with Guix and Nix tacked on. I
> > > would like to move everything over to Guix with Nix tacked on. Is
> > > there a guide on how to do this?
> >
> >
> > Well, the easiest (and possibly dangerous way) to do this, would be to
> > create
> > a config.scm file, then run guix system init /etc/config.scm
> >
> > When you reboot, you would be running guix system.
> >
W.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-10-07 22:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-10-04 3:49 Is there a post or blog on how to convert from a distro to guix losslessly Josh Marshall
2023-10-07 15:17 ` jbranso
2023-10-07 19:55 ` Josh Marshall
2023-10-07 22:29 ` wolf [this message]
2023-10-11 9:47 ` Simon Tournier
2023-10-11 13:18 ` Josh Marshall
2023-10-13 20:45 ` Josh Marshall
2023-10-18 1:48 ` Josh Marshall
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