PXE boot.

PXE boot.

[Omar Radwan]

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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? Or is there any other way?

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Re: PXE boot.

[Ludovic Courtès]

Omar Radwan <toxemicsquire4@gmail.com> 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’t 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
<http://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/html_node/Installation.html>.

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
<http://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/html_node/Invoking-guix-system.html>.

Thanks,
Ludo’.