What I want with this derivation is to allow the sheevaplug nixos to
build a tarball with all the needed files to boot. Then, this can be
unpacked into an SD card, or into a NFS/TFTP server, and then the
user can boot the system with help of the uboot console.
By now, I have only tried to build the tarball in a PC, in order
to develop the nix expressions quicker.
There is nothing written specialy for the Sheevaplug in all this,
by now.
svn path=/nixos/trunk/; revision=20035
to the nixpkgs trunk 'kernelPackages'.
Seeing a strange kernelPackages mentioned in installation-cd-rescue (2.6.31_something) I
update that to 2.6.32.
svn path=/nixos/trunk/; revision=19443
installation-cd-minimal.nix is now 2.6.32. Added most of its extra
tools to installation-cd-base.nix.
* Put memtest86 at the bottom of the GRUB menu. (There is currently
no good way to do this other than to change the module inclusion
order.)
svn path=/nixos/trunk/; revision=19188
expose makeInfo (used by test now)
expose config hack
* Adding tests to release.nix
* fixes
* removing dependency on perl
refactoring details:
Move all configuration modules used by the NixOS installation test script
into one directory.
svn path=/nixos/trunk/; revision=18982
modules that should be added to the initrd, but should only be
loaded on demand (e.g. by the kernel or by udev). This is
especially useful in the installation CD, where we now only load the
modules needed by the hardware.
* Enable automatic modprobing by udev in the initrd.
svn path=/nixos/trunk/; revision=18975
You can run the kvm nixos installation test by:
nix-build --no-out-link tests/test-nixos-install-from-cd.nix
It boots the installed system.
It still fails sshd isn't started (yet)
adding nixos-bootstrapping-archive:
You can install NixOS easily using any live cd now.
See README-BOOTSTRAP-NIXOS
svn path=/nixos/trunk/; revision=18950
qemu_kvm. Installation doesn't take place yet. VM is started
printing a remote controlled "Hello".
This serves as example how to run a vm within a bulid job.
svn path=/nixos/trunk/; revision=18887
the /init and /system symlinks on the CD (since it removes the
cyclic dependency between building the Grub menu and the system
derivation).
svn path=/nixos/branches/upstart-0.6/; revision=18344
into one argument "modules".
* release.nix: fixed the manual job.
* ISO generation: break an infinite recursion. Don't know why this
suddenly happens. Probably because of the nixpkgs.config change,
but I don't see why. Maybe the option evaluation is too strict.
svn path=/nixos/trunk/; revision=16878
* Make sure that reconfiguration in the live CD works properly by
including the proper configuration module in
/etc/nixos/configuration.nix. Ugly.
svn path=/nixos/branches/modular-nixos/; revision=16016
an X server and KDE 4. Thanks to squashfs it's only 466 MiB large.
`installation-cd-small.nix' builds the original, text-only
installation CD.
svn path=/nixos/branches/modular-nixos/; revision=15934
size of the i686-linux ISO image from 463 MiB to 147 MiB. Hopefully
it also speeds up installation due to reduced seek time and larger
block sizes, but I haven't tested that yet (on real hardware).
svn path=/nixos/branches/modular-nixos/; revision=15930
rescue-dvd.nix (not tested though), i.e. it has all its extra
packages and includes the build-time dependencies.
svn path=/nixos/branches/modular-nixos/; revision=15917
iso-image.nix contains the minimal stuff necessary to build a
bootable ISO image containing the given configuration. The idea is
that this can be customised by providing additional modules, e.g. to
add extra packages to the image.
The ISO image is exported in the configuration attribute
system.build.isoImage. So it can be built as follows:
$ nix-build lib/eval-config.nix \
--arg configuration 'import ./modules/installer/cd-dvd/iso-image.nix' \
-A config.system.build.isoImage
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