Eelco Dolstra
c55460a027
* Use tar 1.15.1 for now (1.16 is buggy).
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* Honour $TMPDIR (my /tmp is full).
svn path=/nixu/trunk/; revision=6918
2006-10-31 17:39:55 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
319489bf8b
* Don't use hardcoded /nixpkgs.
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svn path=/nixu/trunk/; revision=6914
2006-10-31 12:15:08 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
89c31b1c2c
* Sketch for purely functional NixOS configuration.
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svn path=/nixu/trunk/; revision=6694
2006-10-11 11:11:41 +00:00
Armijn Hemel
c8b64ef689
we can safely use the stable version again
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svn path=/nixu/trunk/; revision=6680
2006-10-08 22:05:06 +00:00
Armijn Hemel
edcdb69c57
make it easier to relocate the location of nixpkgs.
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svn path=/nixu/trunk/; revision=6602
2006-09-24 22:03:33 +00:00
Armijn Hemel
da7b60735b
-r, not -q
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svn path=/nixu/trunk/; revision=6589
2006-09-23 23:06:28 +00:00
Armijn Hemel
62f61928e7
also copy a statically linked ncurses to the installer, so at least we get all the right terminfo thingies.
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svn path=/nixu/trunk/; revision=6326
2006-08-30 00:40:15 +00:00
Armijn Hemel
e876f67580
pass nano. Not that it actually works, because it also needs ncurses for terminal information...
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svn path=/nixu/trunk/; revision=6321
2006-08-30 00:15:02 +00:00
Armijn Hemel
964780812d
fix NIXOS-38
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svn path=/nixu/trunk/; revision=6317
2006-08-29 21:58:33 +00:00
Armijn Hemel
b5bdf9b453
-r, not -q
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svn path=/nixu/trunk/; revision=6295
2006-08-28 13:41:41 +00:00
Armijn Hemel
4a8b316cf6
* show installation instructions at install time
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* update manual to reflect new method better
svn path=/nixu/trunk/; revision=6285
2006-08-27 22:31:35 +00:00
Armijn Hemel
1323e55ad3
remove the root(hd0,0) line, because it wasn't needed. At least, not in our
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situation. I don't know how it will it work with something like dual booting
and chain loading, so that is unsupported right now :P
svn path=/nixu/trunk/; revision=6282
2006-08-27 22:18:39 +00:00
Armijn Hemel
f7c69397b7
update howto to reflect new changes
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svn path=/nixu/trunk/; revision=6274
2006-08-27 15:34:24 +00:00
Armijn Hemel
65742f6eb9
refactor install process:
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* user is dropped into a shell, where the user can run tools like fdisk to partition a disk
* user needs to add a file called "disklayout" where it specifies SWAP, INSTALLDEVICE and TARGETDRIVE
* depending on the values of these the installscript might need to be fixed to get the GRUB configuration right
It's still somewhat inflexible, but it gives the user a bit more control than the old scheme
svn path=/nixu/trunk/; revision=6271
2006-08-27 14:14:59 +00:00
Armijn Hemel
65203abef4
make sure /lib/modules exists on the target drive. Whoopsie.
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svn path=/nixu/trunk/; revision=6078
2006-08-08 22:35:40 +00:00
Armijn Hemel
297d159c8d
make sure /etc/resolv.conf is available in our chroot
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svn path=/nixu/trunk/; revision=6077
2006-08-08 21:31:34 +00:00
Armijn Hemel
9626049ec5
first attempt at using network installs
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svn path=/nixu/trunk/; revision=6076
2006-08-08 20:24:33 +00:00
Armijn Hemel
ddc27b2313
use "kernelscripts" package to install the kernel and extra modules. This is
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actually bad, because in theory a different kernel could be chosen to be
installed and then we could not load any modules...but even communism
works...in theory!
svn path=/nixu/trunk/; revision=6068
2006-08-07 19:48:18 +00:00
Armijn Hemel
7e6a7d6418
rewrite to use busybox
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TODO: rewrite some of the tools to use the busybox tools instead of the "normal" utilities during installation, so we can shave off another 15 MB from the
installer
svn path=/nixu/trunk/; revision=6063
2006-08-06 23:59:31 +00:00
Armijn Hemel
33940db2dc
re-enable the default debugging login shell
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svn path=/nixu/trunk/; revision=6048
2006-08-04 23:39:59 +00:00
Armijn Hemel
183b838ed8
script cleanups
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svn path=/nixu/trunk/; revision=6041
2006-08-04 09:29:32 +00:00
Armijn Hemel
97690c23da
cosmetic change
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svn path=/nixu/trunk/; revision=6036
2006-08-03 18:00:32 +00:00
Armijn Hemel
e030a74c87
remove substitutes that point to the installer CD after installation
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svn path=/nixu/trunk/; revision=6035
2006-08-03 17:10:08 +00:00
Armijn Hemel
6e030f736c
speed up the installation a *lot*, at the price of a bit more diskspace (49 MB currently)
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svn path=/nixu/trunk/; revision=6034
2006-08-03 16:19:04 +00:00
Armijn Hemel
fcc3b33cb9
pack Nix packages in a tarball, unpack tarball, don't copy it file for file from CD (== slow)
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svn path=/nixu/trunk/; revision=6030
2006-08-03 13:43:44 +00:00
Armijn Hemel
71755c6176
unmount all filesystems properly before unmounting target disk
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svn path=/nixu/trunk/; revision=6026
2006-08-02 22:54:44 +00:00
Armijn Hemel
493661f880
This is a major big update for the install process for NixOS. This requires
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the latest patches to Nix itself, which were committed the last few days.
Biggest changes:
make-disk.sh:
* use nix-push to generate NAR files and a manifest
* use only copy a "few" packages (but probably still too many than we want) to the Nix store on the CD
fill-disk.sh:
* use nix-pull to register a manifest with a lot of packages. Only copy and
register as valid the few packages that are in the Nix store on the installer
CD, install the rest via nix-env and other tools (this needs to be reviewed
thoroughly for optimizations).
All in all the install process is a lot cleaner now, the login script is broken
however (but should be relatively easy to fix with some Nix wizardry). NIX_ROOT
is still broken, but we can work around most issues with relative ease now.
svn path=/nixu/trunk/; revision=6025
2006-08-02 22:42:56 +00:00
Armijn Hemel
2c87da322d
use less packages
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svn path=/nixu/trunk/; revision=6024
2006-08-02 22:34:13 +00:00
Armijn Hemel
8c56a19d55
take closure of statically linked bash, this makes it "deterministic" according to eelco ;)
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svn path=/nixu/trunk/; revision=6007
2006-07-31 15:16:10 +00:00
Armijn Hemel
95fa5b81b1
remove a dependency on an external coreutils (overlooked)
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svn path=/nixu/trunk/; revision=5669
2006-07-09 22:33:01 +00:00
Armijn Hemel
89762236cf
it is nice to have a few more ttys available in NixOS, so mknod them
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svn path=/nixu/trunk/; revision=5582
2006-07-04 20:38:14 +00:00
Armijn Hemel
afb7f5b950
actually build nix-unstable
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svn path=/nixu/trunk/; revision=5577
2006-07-04 18:12:48 +00:00
Armijn Hemel
45a2be1fbe
also use our own cpio. Make sure we don't just query nix expressions, but
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actually realize them as well. D'oh!
svn path=/nixu/trunk/; revision=5566
2006-07-03 23:16:44 +00:00
Armijn Hemel
8a14c8d886
wel also want to use our own gzip
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svn path=/nixu/trunk/; revision=5565
2006-07-03 22:40:56 +00:00
Armijn Hemel
a1bd3698ef
also use our own coreutils
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svn path=/nixu/trunk/; revision=5564
2006-07-03 22:20:22 +00:00
Armijn Hemel
c984b735bd
also use mkisofs from Nixpkgs
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svn path=/nixu/trunk/; revision=5563
2006-07-03 09:32:15 +00:00
Armijn Hemel
a60d5c3bdb
also use sed and tar from Nixpkgs instead of the host system
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svn path=/nixu/trunk/; revision=5562
2006-07-03 08:39:52 +00:00
Armijn Hemel
e76efef0d0
make sure we always have mktemp, by building our own version first using Nix.
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This makes it a bit more pure to build the NixOS iso. Still room for improvement though...
svn path=/nixu/trunk/; revision=5559
2006-07-02 22:37:40 +00:00
Armijn Hemel
32c8535c4d
reenable e2fsprogs compiled with dietlibc
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svn path=/nixu/trunk/; revision=5528
2006-06-25 10:42:17 +00:00
Armijn Hemel
02cf649af6
small cleanups, also move to newer Nix
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svn path=/nixu/trunk/; revision=5524
2006-06-24 22:14:43 +00:00
Armijn Hemel
2a304add0b
rewrite to new Nixpkgs and new Nix version
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svn path=/nixu/trunk/; revision=5233
2006-04-28 12:45:32 +00:00
Armijn Hemel
d8550e9d10
remove all reference to the "hotplug" package, since it is obsolete.
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TODO: update udev
svn path=/nixu/trunk/; revision=5222
2006-04-25 23:52:31 +00:00
Armijn Hemel
af9eb8537e
move the existing documentation to the docs directory
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svn path=/nixu/trunk/; revision=5007
2006-03-08 19:15:14 +00:00
Armijn Hemel
a05f476c39
add a doc directory, with some documentation in it
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svn path=/nixu/trunk/; revision=5006
2006-03-08 19:14:12 +00:00
Armijn Hemel
89df039e35
* store the value of hotplug in /etc/sysconfig/hotplug and cat this value
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to /proc/sys/kernel/hotplug during boot. (FIXME, install hotplug during
install of NixOS)
* /dev/input is created by udev
svn path=/nixu/trunk/; revision=4660
2006-02-01 13:31:52 +00:00
Armijn Hemel
78767321ce
add something so we modprobe some stuff for at least one family of USB
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controllers (uhci-hcd). This is of course not very elegant: even if a
machine does not have USB, or another USB controller this module will loaded.
A better way would be to let some hardware probing program run first, but
that is "future work"
svn path=/nixu/trunk/; revision=4631
2006-01-31 11:01:28 +00:00
Armijn Hemel
caf9b6bfba
start of good HOWTO for using X in NixOS
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svn path=/nixu/trunk/; revision=4602
2006-01-26 19:48:51 +00:00
Armijn Hemel
ff05d84a10
we also want /dev/input to be available (fixme, can't this one be created by udev instead?)
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svn path=/nixu/trunk/; revision=4593
2006-01-26 10:25:06 +00:00
Armijn Hemel
6bad2b0809
do stuff with utmp and wtmp, so tools like "w" work
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svn path=/nixu/trunk/; revision=4581
2006-01-20 13:47:01 +00:00
Armijn Hemel
994b85b4af
make all paths absolute...still needed: a builder
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svn path=/nixu/trunk/; revision=4563
2006-01-16 16:05:16 +00:00