Re: Please put the system-configuration into the image

2017-09-10 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi, Hartmut Goebel skribis: > If somebody is downloading the ISO-image and installing GuixSD on some > machine – stand-alone, no other GuixSD systems around: He/she would > store the system-config somewhere on the machine, change it and > "reconfigure" and hack around. (At least this is what I w

Re: Please put the system-configuration into the image

2017-09-08 Thread Vincent Legoll
On Fri, Sep 8, 2017 at 1:45 PM, Julien Lepiller wrote: > The qemu image however is meant to be copied directly to the virtual disk of > a VM, so it is not a live system, but your own system. I think it would be > better for the user to be able to access the configuration directly from the > VM and

Re: Please put the system-configuration into the image

2017-09-08 Thread Julien Lepiller
Le 8 septembre 2017 12:11:45 GMT+02:00, Hartmut Goebel a écrit : >Am 07.09.2017 um 14:43 schrieb ng0: >> You can take any system configuration file and build a shared or >free-standing >> vm with the "guix system" function. It > >I'm afraid, you did not get the point (No offence meant!): I know t

Re: Please put the system-configuration into the image

2017-09-08 Thread Vincent Legoll
I didn't want to get involved in this but feel the need to chime in to add my +1 on Hartmut's idea. On Fri, Sep 8, 2017 at 12:11 PM, Hartmut Goebel wrote: > Am 07.09.2017 um 14:43 schrieb ng0: >> You can take any system configuration file and build a shared or >> free-standing >> vm with the "gu

Re: Please put the system-configuration into the image

2017-09-08 Thread Hartmut Goebel
Am 07.09.2017 um 14:43 schrieb ng0: > You can take any system configuration file and build a shared or free-standing > vm with the "guix system" function. It I'm afraid, you did not get the point (No offence meant!): I know that I can do this. I also know that I can maintain configs via git. But a

Re: Please put the system-configuration into the image

2017-09-07 Thread ng0
Hartmut Goebel transcribed 1.3K bytes: > Am 07.09.2017 um 10:30 schrieb Ludovic Courtès: > > However, I don’t quite understand the use case: you’d like to hack on > > the OS declaration of the image from within the image? That sounds > > inconvenient no? > > My use case is this: > > I plan to us

Re: Please put the system-configuration into the image

2017-09-07 Thread Hartmut Goebel
Am 07.09.2017 um 10:30 schrieb Ludovic Courtès: > However, I don’t quite understand the use case: you’d like to hack on > the OS declaration of the image from within the image? That sounds > inconvenient no? My use case is this: I plan to use GuixSD for one of my systems. Prior to installing Gui

Re: Please put the system-configuration into the image

2017-09-07 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hartmut Goebel skribis: > Am 05.09.2017 um 20:05 schrieb ng0: >> The config used to build the disk-image is in gnu/system/install.scm >> see >> https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/html_node/Building-the-Installation-Image.html#Building-the-Installation-Image >> hope this helps. > > Thanks f

Re: Please put the system-configuration into the image

2017-09-06 Thread Hartmut Goebel
Am 05.09.2017 um 20:05 schrieb ng0: > The config used to build the disk-image is in gnu/system/install.scm > see > https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/html_node/Building-the-Installation-Image.html#Building-the-Installation-Image > hope this helps. Thanks for pointing to this – I didn't reco

Re: Please put the system-configuration into the image

2017-09-05 Thread ng0
Hartmut Goebel transcribed 15K bytes: > Hi, > > I'm afraid, I'm late to the discussion and I don't find the thread about > it in the archives. But I want to share me experience as a "user": > > I'm in strong favor of putting the system-configuration used to build > the disk-image into the disk-im

Re: Please put the system-configuration into the image

2017-09-05 Thread Adam Pribyl
On Tue, 5 Sep 2017, Hartmut Goebel wrote: Hi, I'm afraid, I'm late to the discussion and I don't find the thread about it in the archives. But I want to share me experience as a "user": I'm in strong favor of putting the system-configuration used to build the disk-image into the disk-image. Y

Please put the system-configuration into the image

2017-09-05 Thread Hartmut Goebel
Hi, I'm afraid, I'm late to the discussion and I don't find the thread about it in the archives. But I want to share me experience as a "user": I'm in strong favor of putting the system-configuration used to build the disk-image into the disk-image. Yesterday I wanted to give the provided QEMU-i