Re: Porting GuixSD to ARM article.

[Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr>]

Hello,

On Tue, Jan 23, 2018 at 10:23:50AM +0100, Mathieu Othacehe wrote:
> >   Notice that the last section of the blog post does not solve the problem:
> >   As I realised by trial and error when trying to use a disk-image for a
> >   virtual machine, it really is only an installation-image, since user data
> >   is stored in an overlay file system that is lost upon reboot.
> It's only true if your image is including "%installation-services" that
> provides "cow-store-service". That's why in the mpd.scm from the article
> the system is not inherited from beaglebone-black-installation-os. By
> starting from mpd.scm you should be able to write a system config that
> can boot and be used directly without any further installation step.

I see, that is a very interesting observation! Is it documented anywhere?
A further naive question: How does it differ from a vm-image then?

> Thanks, I hope you will be able to produce a working GuixSD image for
> your target. Don't hesitate to ask other questions!

I should give it a try, once I have a bit of time, which probably means
not before the weekend.

Thanks!

Andreas