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

[Joachim Schiele]

this sounds like a cool setup. if you manage to get it running please
document it in the wiki!

On 24.07.2015 11:12, Christian Theune wrote:
> 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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