[Nix-dev] Bootstrapping NixOS

[Shea Levy]

On 05/13/2012 11:28 AM, Alexander Foremny wrote:
> 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've never used the bootstrapping archive, but unless it does something 
particularly strange it should work on x86-64 Linux. Our nixpkgs 
bootstrap uses 32-bit binaries to bootstrap the toolchain on x86-64, for 
example.