Re: guixsd offline installation media

[Dika Setya Prayogi]

I understand, that's why I write it "for future guixsd" not for next
guixsd. from my thoughs offline installation is the nicest way to
autobuild a system. for me, I prefer download an 4Gb iso file rather
than failing build 4 times (that will make me angry and wreck
something, lol). and in this modern live there is many download option
like a postponeable download ex:torrent that will cover up an slow
bandwith, but in a case sensitive like building OS, a failed download
can be a disaster. my conclusion is it's nice to have a stable system
first then you can costumize or wreck it as you want, whatever how
many times you misconfigured or break your os you can reinstall the
stable installation and wreck it again. thanks for your attention Ludo
:-)

2015-12-18 5:41 GMT+07.00, Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden>:
> Hi!
>
> Dika Setya Prayogi <address@hidden> skribis:
>
>> can we make an offline installation media for future guixsd ? because
>> it is more reliable and easy to build in slow or problematic bandwith
>> like in my town
>
> The main difficulty is that the set of packages needed depends on what
> the OS configuration file contains.
>
> We could populate the installation media such that it contains
> everything needed for the bare-bones.scm config, or for the desktop.scm
> config (but it would be big!).
>
> However, as soon as the user would choose a different config, they would
> have to download different things, and perhaps those already in the
> installation image would happen to be unnecessary.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> BTW, note that our current server at hydra.gnu.org performs very badly,
> which explains the slow bandwidth (as well as the current fundraiser,
> see <http://www.gnu.org/software/guix/donate/>.  :-)).
>
> Ludo’.
>