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Re: Is there a post or blog on how to convert from a distro to guix loss
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Re: Is there a post or blog on how to convert from a distro to guix losslessly |
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Sun, 8 Oct 2023 00:29:46 +0200 |
On 2023-10-07 15:55:29 -0400, Josh Marshall wrote:
> I'm not looking to live that much on the edge!
I personally did the conversion by backing the drive to a portable USB disk,
doing clean install and copying the files back.
That is what will most likely work. In place conversion are possible (I am
sure, even if I am unsure how exactly), but will definitely be somewhat hairy
and will recommend backing the data first anyway...
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> On Sat, Oct 7, 2023, 11:17 AM <jbranso@dismail.de> wrote:
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> > October 3, 2023 11:51 PM, "Josh Marshall" <
> > joshua.r.marshall.1991@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > I have a base minimal system of Ubuntu with Guix and Nix tacked on. I
> > > would like to move everything over to Guix with Nix tacked on. Is
> > > there a guide on how to do this?
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> >
> > Well, the easiest (and possibly dangerous way) to do this, would be to
> > create
> > a config.scm file, then run guix system init /etc/config.scm
> >
> > When you reboot, you would be running guix system.
> >
W.
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