[Nix-dev] Bootstrapping NixOS

[Alexander Foremny]

Unfortunately it appears as if Rackspace doesn't offer i686 Linux
distributions to be run on their Cloud Servers. So I couldn't use the
fixed i686 bootstrapping archive.

I managed to install NixOS on a Rackspace Cloud Server running Gentoo.
I documented the process of installation on the wiki in case anyone is
interested in it. However, it is definitely not ideal to install NixOS
this way. But it works for now.

https://nixos.org/wiki/Install_NixOS_on_Rackspace_Cloud_Servers

Regards
Alexander Foremny

2012/5/10 Marc Weber <marco-oweber at gmx.de>:
> Maybe I should just remove the wiki until I find time to host current
> bootstrapping archives myself. I personally think the community should
> provide more feedback to get this back into the repositories..
> Eelco Dolstra removed it in the bast due to "lack of documentation"
> without even asking for improving it.
>
> If you have a fast connection bootstrap on your own qemu instance and
> copy everything up to your server eg using rsync or by creating your own
> tar.
>
> I can also create a new archive for you. i686 is no issue. x86_64 will
> require longer upload time ( a couple of hours ).
>
> http://mawercer.de/~marc/minimal-install-archive.patch
> is the last patch which still may apply which you can use to create the
> archive yourself.
> cd /etc/nixos/nixos; nix-build -A minimal_install_archive ./release.nix
>
> If others have a better way for bootstrapping they may talk about their
> way.
>
> Nice about my archive is that it ships with scripts such as
> "run-in-chroot" which you may want to use a couple of times for
> rebuilding the system till you get everything right.
>
> Marc Weber
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