Hi, Gurjeet Singh <gurj...@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. > If everything is being downloaded and installed from the internet, why > does the image have to be so huge (~500MB > guix-system-install-1.2.0.x86_64-linux.iso.xz)? Good question. > Is it possible to deliver the /gnu/store on the ISO so that a minimal > system can be installed and started, without having to connect to the > Internet? That should be the case. We have installation tests in VMs that are all made without network access: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/tree/gnu/tests/install.scm We cheat a little bit to make sure that absolutely nothing is downloaded, but like I wrote, a regular install for a non-graphical system should have little to nothing to download. HTH, Ludo’.