Re: converting a distro to guixsd

2021-01-19 Thread kevinbanjo
On Tue, Jan 19, 2021 at 6:28 AM Joshua Branson wrote: > kevinbanjo writes: > > > On Sun, Jan 17, 2021 at 7:42 PM Joshua Branson > wrote: > > > That's kind of in essence what WSL (at least version 2) is. > Ahhh. I didn't know that. > Does qemu work on Linux? You could install Guix System that

Re: converting a distro to guixsd

2021-01-19 Thread Joshua Branson
kevinbanjo writes: > On Sun, Jan 17, 2021 at 7:42 PM Joshua Branson wrote: > I started trying to use this to install The Guix System ("TGS") directly > using the instructions here but due to a bug in busybox (not being able to > access directory entries on the virtual disk partitions) I decided

Re: converting a distro to guixsd

2021-01-19 Thread kevinbanjo
On Sun, Jan 17, 2021 at 7:42 PM Joshua Branson wrote: > kevinbanjo writes: > > > On Sun, Jan 17, 2021, 11:47 AM wrote: > > > > Actually I was looking at trying to convert an Alpine Linux in WSL into > GuixSd > > You may be confusing terms. GuixSD is the deprecated term. The new > term is Guix

Re: converting a distro to guixsd

2021-01-17 Thread Joshua Branson
kevinbanjo writes: > On Sun, Jan 17, 2021, 11:47 AM wrote: > > Actually I was looking at trying to convert an Alpine Linux in WSL into GuixSd You may be confusing terms. GuixSD is the deprecated term. The new term is Guix System, which is running guix paired with the GNU shepherd as a GNU/Lin

Re: converting a distro to guixsd

2021-01-17 Thread jbranso
Hello Kevin! Why yes there is! https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/Binary-Installation.html Note: We recommend the use of this shell installer script. The script automates the download, installation, and initial configuration steps described below. It should be run as the root user. As ro

converting a distro to guixsd

2021-01-17 Thread kevinbanjo
So there's a script to install the guix package manager onto another distro. Is there a script, or at least a doc, on how to then convert that distro in place into GuixSD? TIA, -Kevin