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Most cloud providers don't provide NixOS, e.g. I use OVH Cloud. IIUC, there is a way to run a script that will delete my OS and install Nix, but I think there m
by scott01 2y ago
Most cloud providers don't provide NixOS, e.g. I use OVH Cloud. IIUC, there is a way to run a script that will delete my OS and install Nix, but I think there might be side effects like cloud-specific network setup which will probably be too much for me :)
Edit: But NixOS looks really good, I have to agree. I guess 'immutability' will let me just install and forget about it.
- talldayo 2y ago> IIUC, there is a way to run a script that will delete my OS and install Nix There is! It's a fucking nightmare: https://xiaoyehua.dev/posts/nixos-on-oracle-arm-machine https://xiaoyehua.dev/posts/nixos-on-oracle-arm-machine It works though, and thanks to the genius that wrote this script I've got a 4 core 24gb Oracle Always Free instance loaded up with NixOS at all hours of the day. I feel spoiled.
- pxc 2y agoI think they're referring to this implementation: https://github.com/nix-community/nixos-anywhere https://github.com/nix-community/nixos-anywhere but cleverca22's work is solid as well there's also the earlier https://github.com/elitak/nixos-infect https://github.com/elitak/nixos-infect and the built-in NIXOS_LUSTRATE: https://nixos.org/manual/nixos/stable/#sec-installing-from-other-distro https://nixos.org/manual/nixos/stable/#sec-installing-from-o... I'd go with nixos-anywhere, personally