[Nix-dev] Stuck on "Install NixOS on Linode" - bootstrap archives download

[Daniel Clark]

2010/7/1 Lluís Batlle i Rossell <viriketo at gmail.com>:
> On Thu, Jul 01, 2010 at 01:55:00PM -0400, Daniel Clark wrote:
>> 2010/7/1 Lluís Batlle i Rossell <viriketo at gmail.com>:
>> > On Thu, Jul 01, 2010 at 01:32:57PM -0400, Daniel Clark wrote:
>> >> I'm following / updating http://wiki.nixos.org/wiki/Install_NixOS_on_Linode
>> >>
>> >> The current doc says "The bootstrap archives can be downloaded from
>> >> minimal_install_archive [1]", however so far I haven't been able to
>> >> actually find a root tarball downloadable under that URL. I'm probably
>> >> just being blind; if someone can provide the exact URL to a known-good
>> >> "minimal install archive" I'd appreciate it (and update the doc
>> >> accordingly).
>> > Instead of a root tarball, you will find a NAR archive. You will need nix to
>> > install that into your nix store, that must sit in /nix.
>> >
>> > If some can tell the mechanisms to put the tarballs downloadable in hydra, I can try to
>> > make them available. I guess some special files in a special directory of the
>> > output store path would do the trick for hydra to show a download link.
>> >
>> > (I'll investigate a bit)
>> >
>> > Regards,
>> > Lluís.
>>
>> Ah, so I need to bootstrap nix packages (but not nixos) locally before
>> bootstrapping nixos remotely. I usually work from a mipsel box, but I
>> can go install nix packages on some other colo server running
>> non-nixos GNU/Linux on x86_64 :-)
>
> In fact I just commited a change to allow the tarball download through the web -
> if hydra were doing its job (I think it's stuck somehow), you would have that
> link in a while.
>
> OTH, you may be interested in the cross-building facilities in nixpkgs, and
> maybe you want to port nixos (native build only) to mipsel?
>
> Nixos works fine on armv5tel (sheevaplug) for one year, so if you have enough
> energy to play that game, let me know.
>
> About mipsel, I only own a OpenWRT system mipsel, where I cross-built nixpkgs
> programs fine. But that machine cannot stand a native build easily :)

If that's all that is holding you back, my company has a developer's
program; we could send you (or another interested NixOS community
member) a faster mipsel box for free - if interested send me your
address and phone # (needed by shippers) off-list.

I actually have a bunch of the type of machine I'd send you in a
cluster, but haven't had time to do config in it yet; plans are to set
it up to do distributed compiles using icecream [1]. Does Nix's
compile farm software do icecream/distcc type distributed compiling
stuff?

[1] http://en.opensuse.org/Icecream

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