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List:       nix-dev
Subject:    Re: [Nix-dev] kexec-installer
From:       Jörg_Thalheim <joerg () higgsboson ! tk>
Date:       2016-12-14 20:23:35
Message-ID: 37e1e346-746b-cc00-ee3e-6821c5108c38 () higgsboson ! tk
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https://gist.github.com/Mic92/4fdf9a55131a7452f97003f445294f97

idea is adapted from clever, who is building other nice stuff currently in this area:

(https://imgur.com/a/GqdJL \
https://github.com/cleverca22/nix-tests/blob/master/kexec/configuration.nix#L57 \
https://gist.github.com/cleverca22/75e3db4dabeff05b743e9be77a2341b9#file-configuration-nix-L4-L19)


At least on nixos unstable kexec is currently broken though:
I have opened a pull request regarding that: \
https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/21158

This could be probably interesting for nixos in general - I think of a generic way to \
deploy nixos with nixops, if the provider does not offer other options.

On 2016-12-14 16:18, Thomas Hunger wrote:
> @Jörg - do you have a link to the kexec based installer?
> 
> On 14 December 2016 at 15:00, Jörg Thalheim <joerg@higgsboson.tk \
> <mailto:joerg@higgsboson.tk>> wrote: 
> I recently made some good experience with kexec based installer.
> 
> They can run basically run on every Linux out there.
> 
> 
> On 2016-12-14 01:06, Jeaye wrote:
> > I've been running a NixOS droplet on DigitalOcean, via nixos-in-place[1] for \
> > about a year. The process for getting it on there is janky, but it's smooth \
> > sailing afterward. 
> > 1: https://github.com/jeaye/nixos-in-place \
> > <https://github.com/jeaye/nixos-in-place> 
> > On Mon, Dec 12, 2016 at 02:30:07PM +0100, Alexandre Peyroux wrote:
> > > Anyone tried on a scaleway instance?
> > > 
> > > 2016-12-12 13:48 GMT+01:00 Profpatsch <mail@profpatsch.de \
> > > <mailto:mail@profpatsch.de>>: 
> > > > On 16-12-12 12:42pm, Azul wrote:
> > > > > works on a 2GB 3quid/month OVH kvm instance, only had to rename eth to
> > > > ens3
> > > > > uname -a
> > > > > Linux vps353091 4.4.36 #1-NixOS SMP Fri Dec 2 08:09:18 UTC 2016 x86_64
> > > > > GNU/Linux
> > > > > 
> > > > > nice one chaps
> > > > Very cool!
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