Re: Testing the installer

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi Gábor,

Gábor Boskovits <address@hidden> skribis:

> This is a bit off topic, but I am about to create an automatic
> installer, that is
> a candidate for a new backend. It currently works by providing a configuration
> record, and then executes a few things from the installer.
>
> (It does a lookup for a candidate installation target disk, autopartitions it,
> then injects the bootloader and file-system fields into an operating-system
> template, and finally does a system installation.)
>
> I will have a look at the new protocol soon, to see if this project
> can benefit from that.

Yes, there may be things to share here.  Alternately, the automated
installer could directly poke at the installer’s APIs instead of being
an external program.

Something to discuss at the Guix Days!  :-)

Ludo’.