From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: myglc2 Subject: Re: Guix/GNU/Linux multi distro + GuixSD multi-site scenario Date: Sun, 27 Mar 2016 13:18:08 -0400 Message-ID: <864mbrhmb3.fsf@gmail.com> References: <86r3eyzfge.fsf@gmail.com> <8760w83jgg.fsf@dustycloud.org> <868u14hhaw.fsf@gmail.com> <8737rc3d36.fsf@dustycloud.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:52196) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1akEKd-0003vX-5W for help-guix@gnu.org; Sun, 27 Mar 2016 13:18:32 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1akEKZ-0004b1-Ug for help-guix@gnu.org; Sun, 27 Mar 2016 13:18:31 -0400 Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:56098) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1akEKZ-0004ax-OQ for help-guix@gnu.org; Sun, 27 Mar 2016 13:18:27 -0400 Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1akEKW-00025f-L8 for help-guix@gnu.org; Sun, 27 Mar 2016 19:18:24 +0200 Received: from c-73-167-118-254.hsd1.ma.comcast.net ([73.167.118.254]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 27 Mar 2016 19:18:24 +0200 Received: from myglc2 by c-73-167-118-254.hsd1.ma.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 27 Mar 2016 19:18:24 +0200 List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-guix-bounces+gcggh-help-guix=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: help-guix-bounces+gcggh-help-guix=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: help-guix@gnu.org Christopher Allan Webber writes: > myglc2 writes: > >> Christopher Allan Webber writes: >> [...] >>> >>> Running all machines, I dunno. I do dual-boot Debian and GuixSD with >>> them sharing the same user profile and store. >> >> Dual boot. Now that is cool! > > Dual booting allowed me to switch to GuixSD a lot more feasibly than I > could have otherwise. I installed it on this laptop right before a 3 > month trip. Dual booting meant that when something wasn't in GuixSD > yet, no problem, I could switch to Debian for a bit. Then I could work > on packages at my leisure to switch over. > > The trick was realizing that the grub that Guix generates wasn't the one > I should boot into... I needed to have Guix and Debian generate their > own grub files on their own partitions, and then have a /boot/ grub > which was reeeeaally small and simply had menu options to import those > other grub files. Neat!. Normally grub would be installed like this... (bootloader (grub-configuration (device "/dev/sda"))) (file-systems (cons (file-system (device "/dev/sda1") (title 'device) (mount-point "/") (type "ext4")) %base-file-systems)) But it sounds like you are installing a custom /boot/grub in /dev/sda. So where is the GuixSD Grub and /? I am very interested in your GuixSD vs Guix/Debian experience. I have run GuixSD and Guix/Debian over the last two months on my headless servers. Initially I installed GuixSD because I wanted the "full monty." Then I put Guix/Debian because I wanted to understand the difference between GuixSD and Guix/GNU/Linux. Finally I caught on to the Guix strategy of installing as little-as-possible in the system profile (using Debian package manager or Guix System Configuration). If one follows this approach, it seems to me that there is very little difference between GuixSD and Guix/Debian, except that Debian has better hardware support and so is more likely to install w/o issues. Do you see it that way or am I missing something?