On Sun, 21 Mar 2021 18:56:05 -0700 Gurjeet Singh <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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. > > 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)? > > 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? The user is free to install and upgrade packages from the > internet, but they should be able to run GuixSD without the Internet > being a hard requirement. > > Best regards, > -- > Gurjeet Singh http://gurjeet.singh.im/ > I think the installer does a `guix pull` before running `guix system init`, so it has to download fresh packages. I haven't used the graphical installer, but at leat that's how the old school CLI install worked, at least as far as I remember. You could just not guix pull, or if you did, you could pull the specific commit that was used to build the system. At least in theory.
