[Nix-dev] NixOS on Linode

[Malcolm Matalka]

Shea was kind enough to help me out a lot (aka, doing every step then
teaching it to me).

I have taken what Shea has done and pushed it to the wiki.  These
instructions have been done at least twice, and I have plans to do it
again once I have migrated my Ubuntu Linode to my NixOS one and can
reinstall.

Sorry if wiping out the previous Wiki page was incorrect, these
instructions are more complete and verified, though.  Thank you all for
your help.

http://nixos.org/wiki/Install_NixOS_on_Linode

/Malcolm

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 I know there is a wiki page, but it seems outdated.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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