jbra...@dismail.de writes:
> September 15, 2022 2:59 AM, "Maze" <m...@pkbd.org> wrote: > >> I corrupted my store and it says you want the guix pull output, so >> please find it at the end of this message. Mostly I send it because guix >> asks, but (see below) at least 2 things broke on that machine, not sure >> it's related. I have to explain a little but I don't actually require or >> expect that a lot of indivudually-tailored help can be given by GNU in >> this case... It's a non-standard use case on more than one account. >> >> I have been doing more than a few unsupported things with this installation. >> Over the week-end and Monday, 3 things stand out: >> >> * I have been starting to use guix home on this guix which is not a guix >> system but which is on top of Debian. I have some user shepherd >> services. They still work as I'm writing this. I think this is >> unsupported though. >> >> * I tried to install a guix system to a thumb drive. It is inconvenient >> to use the ISO so I decided to do it from Guix on top of Debian. When I > > I personally do not understand your usecase. For me, installing the > guix system installer on a usb is as simple as: > > wget https://path/to/guix/installer.iso > sudo dd if=installer.iso of=/dev/sdb status=progress && sync > > I would rather do than than to try to build a custom iso image. :) > I'd rather have a bootable and rw system on a thumbdrive than an ISO image which is a ro system which loads itself in RAM. Changes don't survive reboots, that's what I find inconvenient with an ISO image. But anyway now I think I understand that I don't need to mount the store copy-on-write when the installing (and booted) sytem has a rw store. At least I think so, I'll try next time. It means what I did last time was probably unnecessary to begin with. > Also do you wanna just take the plunge and install guix system? > > It's super worth it! > > It has been the most stable distro that I have ever used. I know it's much better with Guix system. But I'll need some time. Because I live in a country where VPNs are a necessity but are supposed to be licensed, I have my own homebrew VPN on Debian using ssh, sysvinit and a bunch of horribly dirty shell scripts and cron tasks. It is probably possible to achieve a much better VPN system with shepherd, but it's a programming task, I'm trying to do it. It's actually both a motivation to migrate my main computer to Guix... and the reason why I can't do it right now. > Thanks, > > Joshua