[Nix-dev] NixOS on Linode

[Marc Weber]

AFAIK there are two ways: using your own initrd, or using boot scripts:

  boot.loader.grub.enable = false;
  boot.loader.initScript.enable = true;

everything else is "as usual", so yes, you can prepare and upload  any
image (using the rescue system).

For German customers admin.jiffybox.de or amazon services (ec2) are
valuabble options, too - because you can rescale and pay hourly.

The minimal install archive I created once is only available in my branches
now, and I haven't tested it for month - its still likely to work in
some way. If you need one tell me the architecture and I'll create one
for you.

https://nixos.org/wiki/Install_NixOS_as_OpenVZ_guest
references
http://hydra.nixos.org/job/nixos/trunk/minimal_install_archive/

However the documentation looks like my old description:
bash $mountPoint/nix/store/nixos-prepare-install checkout-sources
copy-nix

I'm surpised that hydra still has copies of those old builds..
Those old copies are unlikely to work because nix has had some small
language extensions since then (which can be worked around by click
installing newer nix and putting it in PATH, does this happen
automatically?)

One alternative is listed here (using the iso) in some way (I never
tried it)
https://nixos.org/wiki/Install_NixOS_on_Rackspace_Cloud_Servers

AFAIK there is an alternative "minimal archive", but I don't know its
url - so consider waiting for additional replies.

For Amazon:
https://nixos.org/wiki/NixOS_on_Amazon_EC2

Marc Weber