Unfortunately it appears as if Rackspace doesn't offer i686 Linux
distributions to be run on their Cloud Servers. So I couldn't use the
fixed i686 bootstrapping archive.
I managed to install NixOS on a Rackspace Cloud Server running Gentoo.
I documented the process of installation on the wiki in
On 05/13/2012 11:28 AM, Alexander Foremny wrote:
Unfortunately it appears as if Rackspace doesn't offer i686 Linux
distributions to be run on their Cloud Servers. So I couldn't use the
fixed i686 bootstrapping archive.
I've never used the bootstrapping archive, but unless it does something
Excerpts from Shea Levy's message of Sun May 13 17:53:52 +0200 2012:
I've never used the bootstrapping archive, but unless it does something
particularly strange it should work on x86-64 Linux.
For those who don't know what the bootstrapping archive is/was:
Its a 50 to 100MB big file which
Author: eelco
Date: Sun May 13 19:10:57 2012
New Revision: 34079
URL: https://nixos.org/websvn/nix/?rev=34079sc=1
Log:
* Work around some problems in tarball checks. Nix wants to open the
DB even in read-only mode. Should probably fix that. Also, or no
longer works like this because it's a
NixOS #151 (14 May)By Eelco DolstraSplit nixos-optionThe nixos-option command does two completely unrelated things: show option values, and generate a template NixOS configuration. This doesn't make sense, so it should be split into two commands. -- Issue on YellowGrass -- http://yellowgrass.org
Author: eelco
Date: Mon May 14 01:33:11 2012
New Revision: 34080
URL: https://nixos.org/websvn/nix/?rev=34080sc=1
Log:
* Require fileSystems to be set.
Modified:
nixos/trunk/modules/system/boot/stage-1.nix
nixos/trunk/modules/tasks/filesystems.nix
Modified:
Author: eelco
Date: Mon May 14 01:53:47 2012
New Revision: 34081
URL: https://nixos.org/websvn/nix/?rev=34081sc=1
Log:
* Give an error at evaluation time if boot.loader.grub.device or
boot.loader.grub.devices are not set, rather than complaining about
it when it's too late.
Modified:
Author: eelco
Date: Mon May 14 01:56:42 2012
New Revision: 34082
URL: https://nixos.org/websvn/nix/?rev=34082sc=1
Log:
* nixos-option: clean up the English and the generated file.
Modified:
nixos/trunk/modules/installer/tools/nixos-option.sh
Modified:
Author: eelco
Date: Mon May 14 02:02:45 2012
New Revision: 34083
URL: https://nixos.org/websvn/nix/?rev=34083sc=1
Log:
* Update the installation instructions.
Modified:
nixos/trunk/doc/manual/installation.xml
Modified: nixos/trunk/doc/manual/installation.xml
Author: eelco
Date: Mon May 14 03:59:38 2012
New Revision: 34084
URL: https://nixos.org/websvn/nix/?rev=34084sc=1
Log:
* Describe the NixOS channel.
Modified:
nixos/trunk/doc/manual/development.xml
nixos/trunk/doc/manual/installation.xml
nixos/trunk/doc/manual/manual.xml
Modified:
Author: eelco
Date: Mon May 14 04:01:47 2012
New Revision: 34085
URL: https://nixos.org/websvn/nix/?rev=34085sc=1
Log:
* Comment out the Configuration in home directory chapter.
Everything described in that chapter is a bug (e.g. needing to
manually create symlinks) that properly belongs in
Author: eelco
Date: Mon May 14 04:12:43 2012
New Revision: 34086
URL: https://nixos.org/websvn/nix/?rev=34086sc=1
Log:
* nixos-checkout: add an argument to specify the directory where the
sources should be stored. E.g. nixos-checkout /home/eelco/srcs
will check out to
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