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
Maybe I should just remove the wiki until I find time to host current
bootstrapping archives myself. I personally think the community should
provide more feedback to get this back into the repositories..
Eelco Dolstra removed it in the bast due to lack of documentation
without even asking for
