Re: [GSoC] Draft proposal for an Install Wizard for Guix

[Ludovic Courtès]

Ricardo Wurmus <address@hidden> skribis:

> I like that idea.  It would be great if we could pass a kernel parameter
> at boot time to initialise the system from a given “operating-system”
> configuration file.  Kickstart is very convenient in this manner, but it
> relies on terrible macros that nobody seems to really understand.  With
> Kickstart I can boot from a thumb drive or a network image, edit the
> kernel boot line to add a line like this:
>
>     ks=http://server/config.ks
>
> to install the system according to the configuration outlined in the
> Kickstart file “config.ks”.
>
> With GuixSD we would append something like this to the kernel line:
>
>     guix=http://server/config.scm
>
> to fetch “config.scm” over HTTP and instantiate the operating system
> configuration it contains.

Ah yes, that’d be quite easy to implement and surely useful.  Other bits
of information would be needed though, such as the target root partition
and possibly partitioning and formatting instructions.

Ludo’.