From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andy Wingo Subject: Re: New Install Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2015 17:08:23 +0200 Message-ID: <87a8slrsm0.fsf@igalia.com> References: <2018551345.1298753.1442491565410.JavaMail.yahoo@mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:59481) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zcao9-0007hk-QP for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 17 Sep 2015 11:09:10 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zcao6-0007ng-Gu for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 17 Sep 2015 11:09:09 -0400 Received: from pb-sasl0.int.icgroup.com ([208.72.237.25]:51474 helo=sasl.smtp.pobox.com) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zcao6-0007MQ-Cv for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 17 Sep 2015 11:09:06 -0400 In-Reply-To: <2018551345.1298753.1442491565410.JavaMail.yahoo@mail.yahoo.com> (Richard's message of "Thu, 17 Sep 2015 12:06:05 +0000 (UTC)") List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Richard Cc: "guix-devel@gnu.org" Hi! On Thu 17 Sep 2015 14:06, Richard writes: > - It is feasible/straightforward to install guixsd to a spare partition > without affecting the existing OS (slackware) on my machine? (My other > machine is burdened with Windows and dual-booting that is a challenge > which might follow later...)? It is, if you want to share /home but not not /etc, /var, and so on. So if your slackware install is on sda1, your home is sda2, and you install GuixSD to sda3 -- that can work. Don't install over sda1 though. > - If so, is it feasible to install guixsd while keeping my existing > extlinux-based boot system or am I obliged to move to grub? In practice you'd be obliged to move to grub. Are you running Guix already? If not, I would suggest trying Guix as a user first. As a user you get most of what GuixSD offers, without perturbing your system. The only downside is when you expect to e.g. see package foo from Guix but you had it installed via slackware and there's something wrong with your Guix setup so you aren't picking up the Guix copy but you don't know why -- this sort of thing is only possible to ultimately clear up if you have nothing in /usr. But it can be worked around and when everything is set up right you won't have this problem. Andy