An idea crossed my mind: from a foreign distribution with Guix installed, run
guix system init /mnt/etc/config.scm /mnt
The documentation tells us that's not enough though:
> With the target partitions ready and the target root mounted on ‘/mnt’,
> we’re ready to go. First, run:
>
> herd start cow-store /mnt
>
> This makes ‘/gnu/store’ copy-on-write, such that packages added to it
> during the installation phase are written to the target disk on ‘/mnt’
> rather than kept in memory. This is necessary because the first phase
> of the ‘guix system init’ command (see below) entails downloads or
> builds to ‘/gnu/store’ which, initially, is an in-memory file system.
Is there a simple way to do this without `herd'?
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Pierre Neidhardt
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