[Nix-dev] Network boot (installer or regular or something)

[Christian Theune]

Hi,

I’ve seen an open ticket and but haven’t found much else, so here the questions:

Is anyone booting NixOS from network?
How do you manage the boot environment?
Which combination do you use? (PXE+NFS+ISOs?)

I can see that this should be generally a nicely manageable thing as we should be able to create this like we create virtual machine images.

Background: I’m currently PXE-booting Gentoo installers that break and keep breaking due to impurity and creeping inconsistencies, and I’m really frustrated, so looking forward to work on this - I wonder how for this actually is. Currently I boot via PXE+NFS and disassemble that ISOs that Gentoo provides. :(

Cheers,
Christian

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