On 17.02.20 17:55, Ellen Papsch wrote:> a few days ago I requested the Guix installer from Hetzner as well. I > gave them the ISO URL from Guix website. They mounted it without > modification, which prevented boot due to the image being compressed. I > had to supply the uncompressed image, which booted fine. > > The installer was not able to install right away. I could complete all > the GUI steps. When it came to guix system init, it bailed with the > message that an initrd-module may be missing. System init (and the > subsequent boot) worked fine with: > > (initrd-modules (append (list "virtio_pci" > "virtio_scsi") > %base-initrd-modules))
AFAIK it's fixed in Guix master. But 1.0.1 is missing the patch. It's time for new release :) > BTW, the VGA console is very limited, you can't select text or send > special key strokes, e.g. control keys. It suffices for activating SSH > though :-) The console is limited but was always good enough for my use cases :) > Hetzner added the image only for me, which is a hindrance for Guix > adoption. Another limitation is that I can't create new servers right > away without going through installation. I can dance around it by > creating a snapshot of a template server and creating the new server > from that snapshot, then reconfiguring the system (or doing a deploy, I > want to try that yet). > > So, doing Guix is a little more inconvenient than a simple, plain > Debian. I can still recommend it, though you may find Hetzner not > meeting your demands in general: The cloud offerings have a rather low > cpu/memory ratio (0.25 cpu/1G RAM) and it's not configurable. Going through the installer all the time if you have more servers is annoying. But for smaller setups with one or two servers pretty okay.
