[Nix-dev] NixOS on Linode

[Malcolm Matalka]

Thanks Shea!

How do you boot the ISO on Linode.  What I did:

- Created a small Gentoo disk and a LiveCD disk

- Booted into Rescue Mode

- Downloaded the
  http://nixos.org/releases/nixos/latest-iso-minimal-x86_64-linux to the
  Gentoo disk

- dd'd the iso to my LiveCD disk

- Modified Configuration so LiveCD is the boot disk, and kernel is
  pv-grub (x86_64)

Then I try to boot and I get a grubdom screen and can't get it to boot.

Am I doing it right?

Thanks!

Once I can get a working Linode I'll push this information back to the
wiki.

/M

shea at shealevy.com writes:

> Hi Malcolm,
>
> I have NixOS running on a linode instance using pv-grub. I originally 
> created three disk images: One to hold the /boot mountpoint (not 
> partitioned, a direct ext2 filesystem was placed on it), one to hold the 
> rest of my partitions, and one to hold the livecd. I then copied the 
> livecd image to the partition (IIRC just using dd), booted into that, 
> and installed my system like normal. Then I deleted the livecd image and 
> folded the free space into the "rest of my partitions" image. My NixOS 
> configuration can be found here: 
> https://bitbucket.org/shlevy/dotfiles/src/bf7f86a6bca2a5fd81614cd40777006bd0e4ff5c/nixos/linode-configuration.nix?at=default
>
> Cheers,
> Shea
>
> On 2013-04-08 16:27, Malcolm Matalka wrote:
>> Hello! I'm wondering if anyone has any tips on getting NixOS on 
>> Linode?
>> I know there is a wiki page, but it seems outdated.  The Linode docs 
>> on
>> running a custom linux distro are also incomplete.
>>
>> I was under the impression I could create a NixOS image on Vbox at 
>> home,
>> and then just upload that and run it, but this doesn't seem to be the
>> case.  Could anyone provide a high-level overview of it?
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> /Malcolm
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