Re: guix system disk-image: preset user profiles (packages & arbitrary data)

2018-06-28 Thread Pierre Neidhardt
Ludovic Courtès writes: > There are two things we could do: > > • Add an option to make the root file system persistent (easy). > > • Add an option to allow users to specify additional partitions in the > disk image (which would be writable). If you look at ‘qemu-image’ > in (gnu

Re: guix system disk-image: preset user profiles (packages & arbitrary data)

2018-06-26 Thread Pierre Neidhardt
Great, thanks for the insights. I'll work on it when I find time then! -- Pierre Neidhardt Spectacularism: A fascination with extreme situations. -- Douglas Coupland, "Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture" signature.asc Description: PGP

Re: guix system disk-image: preset user profiles (packages & arbitrary data)

2018-06-26 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello Pierre, Pierre Neidhardt skribis: > I'd like to built a live disk-image for a USB stick I carry around with > me. Booting it would result in the exact configuration I have on my > machine. FWIW I did that a year or two ago with hacky modifications to the code. It would be nice to make

Re: guix system disk-image: preset user profiles (packages & arbitrary data)

2018-06-25 Thread Pierre Neidhardt
I had time to try out today: the changes made on a Live USB don't persist across reboots. Which seems strange considering / is mounted read-write ("rw"). Any idea? -- Pierre Neidhardt Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry. signature.asc Description: PGP signature

guix system disk-image: preset user profiles (packages & arbitrary data)

2018-06-23 Thread Pierre Neidhardt
Hi there, I'd like to built a live disk-image for a USB stick I carry around with me. Booting it would result in the exact configuration I have on my machine. I can create a disk image with: > guix system disk-image ~/.guix-config/config.scm Then boot the live and set up my user profile as