From: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: Guix-devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Installation
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2018 16:47:24 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87k1wgh4hf.fsf@elephly.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87mv1c4kp7.fsf@gnu.org>
Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:
> Gábor Boskovits <boskovits@gmail.com> skribis:
>
>> I believe, that we could make a powerful extension to guixsd if we could do
>> an installation from an installation description.
>>
>> I think this installation description should look like the operating-system description we
>> already have.
>
> In what way would it defer? :-)
>
> ‘operating-system’ *is* an “installation description.”
I guess it would differ from what we have currently in that it would
also specify partitioning information, which is not handled by
“operating-system”.
Does it make sense to extend “operating-system” such that disk
partitioning information could be included and (*holds breath*) acted
upon automatically?
Acting on partitioning info is a little scary because it can easily lead
to data loss upon reconfiguration. Small bugs could lead to very big
problems, so maybe this should not be default behaviour.
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Ricardo
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-01-17 15:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-01-09 12:43 Installation Gábor Boskovits
2018-01-17 14:35 ` Installation Ludovic Courtès
2018-01-17 15:47 ` Ricardo Wurmus [this message]
2018-01-17 19:35 ` Installation Gábor Boskovits
2018-01-18 10:27 ` Installation Ludovic Courtès
2018-01-18 10:29 ` Installation Ludovic Courtès
2018-01-18 12:05 ` Installation ng0
2018-01-18 15:11 ` Installation Ricardo Wurmus
2018-01-18 16:41 ` Installation myglc2
2018-01-22 4:38 ` Installation Chris Marusich
2018-01-22 8:29 ` Installation Gábor Boskovits
2018-01-18 2:29 ` Installation George myglc2 Clemmer
2018-01-18 9:29 ` Drive identifiers Danny Milosavljevic
2018-01-18 9:39 ` Danny Milosavljevic
2018-01-18 10:32 ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-01-18 11:01 ` Danny Milosavljevic
2018-01-19 14:35 ` Danny Milosavljevic
2018-01-18 20:10 ` myglc2
2018-01-19 8:27 ` Danny Milosavljevic
2018-01-19 0:43 ` myglc2
2018-01-19 7:22 ` Danny Milosavljevic
2018-01-19 16:42 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2018-01-24 14:12 ` Ludovic Courtès
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