Re: guixsd offline installation media

[Alex Vong]

Efraim Flashner <address@hidden> writes:

> I was going to make jokes about apt-cd and the years of issues that's caused
> people with fresh debian installs, but all we should need to do is
> populate /gnu/store with either/both precompiled binaries/source files.
> If/when substitutes fails, the files are already there.
>
> As an aside, I don't think targeting DVD size is a good idea, but maybe
> 4GB/8GB for usb sticks shouldn't be bad. Also if we had a torrent it would be
> easier to not rely directly on hydra for starting up. Also its an easy way to
> donate bandwidth without setting up a hydra clone.
I like the idea of having torrents for those huge binaries, this should
really speed up the downloading process.