Leo Famulari <l...@famulari.name> skribis: > On Thu, Feb 09, 2017 at 06:36:09PM +0000, ng0 wrote: >> today I had a short message exchange with the hoster "IN-Berlin"[0], a >> non-commercial group predating the widespread access of internet in >> Germany. >> >> It turns out that it could be as simple as providing them with the raw >> disk image, so I will give it a try soon. > > A few months ago I had a brief discussion with a representative of > <https://serveraptor.com> about offering GuixSD there. > > They said that could accept a bootable ISO or qcow2 image. > > So, we could give them the 0.12.0 GuixSD installer image, after > converting it to the qcow2 format. > > I used the following command to convert the installer to qcow2: > > $ xz -d guixsd-usb-install-0.12.0.x86_64-linux.xz \ > && qemu-img convert -O qcow2 guixsd-usb-install-0.12.0.x86_64-linux \ > guixsd-usb-install-0.12.0.x86_64-linux.qcow2 > > The results are available at > <https://famulari.name/a2249a95c83f60bc75efe89b6fe4f01d/>. > > I'd like for someone to try this conversion themself and verify that it > creates the same qcow2 file.
The image itself is most likely not bit-reproducible, if that’s what you mean (non-reproducible packages, uncontrolled file system layout, etc.) > If it does, then we can ask Serveraptor to make it available for testing > on their platform. That would be great! For these use cases, I wonder if it makes sense to provide the installation image. Wouldn’t it be more convenient if we provided, say, the “bare-bones” image or a variant thereof? That way, as a user, you could directly use it as-is, or just run ‘reconfigure’ in it. Thanks, Ludo’.
