search

giuliano108 / guix-packages

Guix on WSL2, packages and notes
GNU General Public License v3.0
51 stars 9 forks source link

Use Alphine WSL2 image to boot the Guix system. #2

Open cireu opened 3 years ago

cireu commented 3 years ago

Thanks for your Guix-on-WSL2.md!

I found a much easier way to start a environment ready for bootstrap Guix. Use the Alpine Image provided in Microsoft Store. It's very small (about 2 MiB) and provide anything needed for bootstrap. I think this is much simpler than using Busybox rootfs and do the rest job manually.

cireu commented 3 years ago

Alphine -> Alpine

giuliano108 commented 3 years ago

You are right, if you're interested in Guix as a "package manager", starting from Alpine will get you up and running much quicker than the procedure described in Guix-on-WSL2.md.

If you're interested in the Guix System (that is the Guix package manager plus the distribution built around it), Guix-on-WSL2.md is still relevant in my opinion.

cireu commented 3 years ago

Guix-on-WSL2.md is still relevant in my opinion.

The post binary install section(How to make a WSL compatible operating-system record and boot it) of this article is very useful. But I think user can use Alpine when they're not ready for the Guix binary installation, because it's simpler than the manual way(boot Busybox rootfs, mount device, write etc files) described in Guix-on-WSL2.md.

Maybe you can add I tips to tell readers that using Alpine to do binary installation is another possible approach(Then they can use guix system reconfigure to override the original Alpine distro)