Message: 4
Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2011 16:16:47 +0000
From: Eelco Dolstra <e.dols...@tudelft.nl>
Subject: [Nix-commits] SVN commit: nix - r27008 - in
nixos/trunk/modules/installer/tools: . installer2
nixos-bootstrap-archive
To: nix-comm...@cs.uu.nl
Message-ID: <20110427161647.ad9c9108c...@mx3.tudelft.nl>
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Author: eelco
Date: Wed Apr 27 16:16:47 2011
New Revision: 27008
URL: https://svn.nixos.org/websvn/nix/?rev=27008&sc=1
Log:
* Remove installer2 and nixos-bootstrap-archive for lack of
documentation / maintenance / clear use cases.
Sorry? Lack of maintainance?
Lack of documentation?
What are those assumptions based on ?
Its referenced here:
http://wiki.nixos.org/wiki/Install_NixOS_on_Linode
Purpose:
1)
Provide a minimal archive containing everything required to
bootstrapm nixos. Thus it contains curl, nix tools and glibc and about 2
shell scripts checking out nixos/nixpkgs into /etc and doing the chroot
work.
2) separate tasks: chroot and install nixos. This is nice if you want to
debug the installation or just chroot into /mnt. It mounts / unmounts
/proc /sys etc for you.
Thus the installation command is
do-chroot 'nixos-rebuild ...' or the like.
By untarring it on /mnt you can install nixos without boot iso which
makes it very useful for people who can't prepare an installation
locally and upload it because uploading takes several hours due to
upload speed.
Of course this is your project - and you may do whatever you wish.
My reply time to mails about nixos is often less than 12 hours and almost
always less than 24h. So sending a small mail to the mailinglist would have been
an alternative.
Well I can create those archives myself - and I know how to install
NixOS. So maybe I should just remove the wiki article which is outdated
now?
Marc Weber
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