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Re: Self-contained GuixSD Installer
From: |
Ludovic Courtès |
Subject: |
Re: Self-contained GuixSD Installer |
Date: |
Tue, 23 Mar 2021 15:14:49 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.1 (gnu/linux) |
Hi,
Gurjeet Singh <gurjeet@singh.im> skribis:
> Does a self-contained GuixSD installer exist? I tried running GuixSD
> in a VM (in VBox, on macOS), and for that I downloaded the ISO image.
> The ISO image, after a few prompts, then tries to install everything
> from the internet.
The Guix System (formerly known as “GuixSD”) installer cannot be
entirely self-contained because there are many different choices users
can make from there: desktop environments, network services, etc.
However, if you choose a bare-bones, non-graphical kind of system
installation, most if not all of it is already in the ISO.
> If everything is being downloaded and installed from the internet, why
> does the image have to be so huge (~500MB
> guix-system-install-1.2.0.x86_64-linux.iso.xz)?
Good question.
> Is it possible to deliver the /gnu/store on the ISO so that a minimal
> system can be installed and started, without having to connect to the
> Internet?
That should be the case. We have installation tests in VMs that are all
made without network access:
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/tree/gnu/tests/install.scm
We cheat a little bit to make sure that absolutely nothing is
downloaded, but like I wrote, a regular install for a non-graphical
system should have little to nothing to download.
HTH,
Ludo’.