Re: Self-contained GuixSD Installer

[Joshua Branson]

Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:

> 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.

That's personally how I install guix system.  I find it's easier to
install the bare-bones.scm...Then after rebooting I switch my config to
my actual config file.

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