October 14, 2022 7:48 AM, "Maze" <[email protected]> wrote: > [email protected] writes: > >> September 15, 2022 2:59 AM, "Maze" <[email protected]> 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.
That is kind of cool to have a bootable rw iso that you can update! > > 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. I personally use sway. Everytime that I install guix system now, I install bare-bones.scm first. Then after it is installed, I set up sway. I have tried to install gnome.scm before, and network issues caused it to fail half way through like 3+ times. > >> Thanks, >> >> Joshua
