From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) Subject: Re: PXE boot. Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2014 10:25:06 +0100 Message-ID: <87ioi89a8d.fsf@gnu.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:44212) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XrkSn-0004um-SE for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 21 Nov 2014 04:25:19 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XrkSi-00032D-EB for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 21 Nov 2014 04:25:13 -0500 Received: from hera.aquilenet.fr ([2a01:474::1]:35144) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XrkSi-00031b-7r for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 21 Nov 2014 04:25:08 -0500 In-Reply-To: (Omar Radwan's message of "Thu, 20 Nov 2014 19:02:47 -0800") 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: Omar Radwan Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org Omar Radwan skribis: > I want to try out Guix 0.8 on one of my devices. The problem is that it's > very old and doesn't support booting from USB's. So I was wondering if I > could PXE boot. Is that possible with Guix? I don=E2=80=99t think so. > Or is there any other way? If that device already runs GNU/Linux, you could install Guix on top of it, as per . Then, if you want to boot the complete system, you can even run something like: guix system init my-config.scm / This will have the same effect as the installation from USB, except that the existing root file system will not be completely wiped. See . Thanks, Ludo=E2=80=99.