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Re: Installation
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Ludovic Courtès |
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Re: Installation |
Date: |
Thu, 18 Jan 2018 11:29:30 +0100 |
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Ricardo Wurmus <address@hidden> skribis:
> Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Gábor Boskovits <address@hidden> skribis:
>>
>>> I believe, that we could make a powerful extension to guixsd if we could do
>>> an installation from an installation description.
>>>
>>> I think this installation description should look like the operating-system
>>> description we
>>> already have.
>>
>> In what way would it defer? :-)
>>
>> ‘operating-system’ *is* an “installation description.”
>
> I guess it would differ from what we have currently in that it would
> also specify partitioning information, which is not handled by
> “operating-system”.
>
> Does it make sense to extend “operating-system” such that disk
> partitioning information could be included and (*holds breath*) acted
> upon automatically?
I suppose only ‘guix system init’ could actually use that information.
Perhaps we could have a separate partitioning description, and users
could optionally run:
guix system init --partitioning=part.scm config.scm
?
Is it really an improvement over writing a Parted script, which is
something people can already do?
> Acting on partitioning info is a little scary because it can easily lead
> to data loss upon reconfiguration. Small bugs could lead to very big
> problems, so maybe this should not be default behaviour.
It’s definitely scary.
Ludo’.
Re: Installation, George myglc2 Clemmer, 2018/01/17