GuixSD

To copy the image to a USB stick, I have followed these steps:

1. Decompress the image using the xz command:

2. Insert a USB stick of 1 GiB or more into your machine, and determine its device name. Assuming that the USB stick is known as /dev/sdX, copy the image with:

To copy the image to a DVD, follow these steps:

1. Decompress the image using the xz command:

2. Insert a blank DVD into your machine, and determine its device name. Assuming that the DVD drive is known as /dev/srX, copy the image with:

Sources manual:

The installation image uses the US qwerty keyboard layout. If I want to change it, I can use the loadkeys command. For example, the following command selects the fr keyboard layout:

I will not address the question of Wi-Fi here, since my connection is very slow. However, it's fine about the hardware, which is not a restricted thing in my case (Qualcomm Atheros AR9485 Wireless Network Adapter (rev 01). For infos about the Wi-Fi, see below:

Some wifi cards require the use of a non-free firmware.

For another laptop, I had to order a usb wifi card Technoethical N150 Mini Wireless USB Adapter for GNU/Linux-libre at:

I have used the wired connection (RJ45 cable).

Wired interfaces have a name starting with ‘e’; for example, the interface corresponding to the first on-board Ethernet controller is called ‘eno1’.

At this point, I need to acquire an IP address. On a network where IP addresses are automatically assigned via DHCP, I can run:

Try to ping a server to see if networking is up and running:

GPT or EFI: The tests I have done in virtual machines have not been very conclusive, I do not know too much about the subject. If you want to use GPT or EFI, please refer to the documentation:

In my case, knowing that I will not have to worry about this question, here we go:

GuixSD will be installed on /dev/sda6. Concerning your own installation, it's better to enable the boot option * now...

Preferably, assigning file systems a label so that I can easily and reliably refer to them in file-system declarations (see File Systems). This is typically done using the -L option of mkfs.ext4 and related commands. So, assuming the target root partition lives at /dev/sda6, a file system with the label my-root can be created with:

Mount the target file system under /mnt with a command like (again, assuming my-root is the label of the root file system):

I have an installed swap partition on /dev/sda5 for debian, why not use it? I ran:

With the target partitions ready and the target root mounted on /mnt, I'm ready to go. First:

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.

Creating the next (empty for now) configuration file:

Note: you can also edit an existing file already in /etc/configuration (for example 'desktop.scm', or 'bare-bones.scm' and modify it as you wish.)

To adapt the configuration of the computer to my needs, I use vi, knowing only this one:

Copy of this file renamed 'config.scm' to '/mnt/etc'

Once I am done preparing the configuration file, the new system must be initialized (remember that the target root file system is mounted under /mnt):

This copies all the necessary files and installs GRUB on /dev/sda, unless you pass the --no-bootloader option. For more information, see Invoking guix system.

This command may trigger downloads or builds of missing packages, which can take some time.

It seemed to be going well:

Copy on /mnt [#####################################################]

# reboot

First reboot

TTY* Consoles

AZERTY keyboard

In console, the root account has the azerty keyboard. As for my GNOME session, it was still in QWERTY, I had to configure (graphically) "All Settings" / 'Region & Language' where I added Language 'French' and in 'Input Sources': 'French (alt.)'

It only remained for me to choose 'fr' in the Gnome-Shell bar of the desktop, and the keyboard became AZERTY.

Updates

hubert@gnu ~$ guix pull

hubert@gnu ~$ guix package -u

hubert@gnu ~$ sudo guix system reconfigure /etc/config.scm

root@gnu ~# reboot

After the reboot, I get the Linux-Libre 4.20.0 kernel

Maintenance

I have launched the 2 following commands:

$ export PATH="$HOME/.config/guix/current/bin:$PATH"

$ export INFOPATH="$HOME/.config/guix/current/share/info:$INFOPATH"

Source :

Installation of softwares

root@gnu ~# guix package -i vim

hubert@gnu ~$ guix package -i markdown

(markdown converts a text file into a html file into a single command line).

hubert@gnu ~$ guix package -i vlc

SSH

I put my ssh access for ovh in the nautilus bookmarks and it works.

This system always gives me satisfaction, my installation dating from February 2018 on the other mobile still works.

"Using the new inferior mechanism, you can now interact with a different revision of Guix and even compose packages from different revisions of Guix.

The output of the command-line tools has been significantly improved: important events are colorized, the guix package and the guix system no longer display build logs, and the guix build colorizes build logs (in a similar way to that of Emacs-Guix).

Guix had reproducible versions and now it has "reproducible source code downloads": when a package refers to a Git repository that has disappeared (which is unfortunately not uncommon!), The command can be retrieved from from Software Heritage. This makes GuixSD one of the first distributions to rely on long-term archives.

Rust packages are now fully initialized from sources, from mrustc, a Rust compiler written in C. This is a win over this yogurt software example, and GuixSD is probably the first distribution to reach this goal.

herd restart SERVICE

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