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Re: recommend the binary install as the path to guixSD?
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Andy Wingo |
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Re: recommend the binary install as the path to guixSD? |
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Thu, 03 Mar 2016 10:11:47 +0100 |
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On Thu 03 Mar 2016 02:27, myglc2 <address@hidden> writes:
> Isn't it straightforward to install guixSD on a new hard drive if you
> have Guix running on a "foreign" distro?
Maybe this is the right thing. Maybe the fastest path to a good GuixSD
installation is via a minimal debian install + detrout's Guix package!
That said it's a bit terrifying in some ways. I guess you could always
work onto a separate partition, that would limit some of the terror. I
moved a Debian or some other system over to NixOS at one point and
whooo, running "mv /etc /old-etc" and similar commands can give you
pause!
But, I was also skeptical of the "just unpack the /gnu/store tarball and
copy the sqlite file" approach, and that has turned out to work really
well, so maybe this is a thing!
Andy