* Eelco Dolstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-05-20 13:17:35+0200] > Hi, > > Roman Cheplyaka wrote: > >> The first problem I've come across is the absence of the tools for >> making internet connection (i.e. pppd, pppoe and others). Considering >> not tiny size of the install CD and necessity of the internet connection >> for installation to succeed, this is very strange. > > I think the reason is that nobody has done a NixOS install in this > configuration before :-) The current assumption is that you have an > internet connection already and at most (if there's no dhcp on the > network) need to use ifconfig etc. to set things up. But adding > pppd/pppoe to the CD shouldn't be a problem, but someone needs to test > it...
I can test it when it's done. Currently I use standard pppd daemon with pppoe user-space driver[1]. It's also good idea to include pptp client[2], and I can test it too. >> Finally I've solved this problem chrooting into my Debian system and >> getting connection up from there. Installation went smoothly, but in the >> end there was a failure to install grub loader for some reason. Message >> was something like "grub/stage1 not read", and there was no changes to >> my boot loader. > > This sounds a lot like the grub problems that others had two weeks ago or > so (also "grub/stage1 not read"). The cause was that the latest version > of mke2fs generates ext2/ext3 filesystems that Grub can't read (due to > the size of inodes having changed from 128 to 256 bytes). We have now > added a patch to Grub that fixes this. The latest ISOs > (http://nixos.org/releases/nixos/nixos-0.1pre11797-7811s3qf/) should > include this fix. What version did you download? I downloaded nixos-0.1pre11797-i686-linux.iso, and ext2 filesystem was created using mke2fs 1.40.8, inode size is indeed 256. 1. http://www.roaringpenguin.com/pppoe/ 2. http://pptpclient.sourceforge.net/ -- Roman I. Cheplyaka :: http://ro-che.info/ ...being in love is totally punk rock... _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.cs.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
