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Armijn Hemel
fe355bba78 replace a lot of tools we initially use with statically linked versions.
This reduces the ramdisk installer size with a few megabytes when gzipped,
but with about 40 MB when unpacked in memory.

There are a few improvements possible:

- strip the binaries. This saves another few MBs.
- only copy the binaries we really need to /bin or /sbin. This could reduce
the size of the installer a lot, especially with util-linux, of which we
don't use that many tools at all.
- try to move some packages we link with glibc right now (like util-linux) to
dietlibc. This will not work for bash, already tried that.
- try to use busybox as a replacement for everything.

svn path=/nixu/trunk/; revision=4428
2005-12-24 11:50:42 +00:00
Armijn Hemel
f130123af5 also make /var/lock and /var/lock/subsys: needed for ssh and others
svn path=/nixu/trunk/; revision=4414
2005-12-22 19:34:36 +00:00
Armijn Hemel
ff840ef21c small corrections to the installer
svn path=/nixu/trunk/; revision=4368
2005-12-14 00:46:59 +00:00
Armijn Hemel
ec790cdf85 add a seperate dir for SSH-keys. Remove the /etc-secret dir, we probably won't be using it anyway...
svn path=/nixu/trunk/; revision=4362
2005-12-13 14:28:55 +00:00
Armijn Hemel
5d0899c0bc add a bunch of stuff for SSH user privilege seperation (yes, we want this)
svn path=/nixu/trunk/; revision=4361
2005-12-13 14:24:31 +00:00
Armijn Hemel
988e34e5bc touch an empty login.defs, needed for login
svn path=/nixu/trunk/; revision=4353
2005-12-12 14:45:46 +00:00
Armijn Hemel
22195d35a5 make /etc/sysconfig so we can store information, such as hardware configuration of the box (needed for Kudzu)
svn path=/nixu/trunk/; revision=4107
2005-10-19 14:14:08 +00:00
Armijn Hemel
b084dc18b3 also add coreutils to Nix default profile
svn path=/nixu/trunk/; revision=4106
2005-10-19 14:07:21 +00:00
Armijn Hemel
569bbf75b1 don't make /bin/bash anymore
svn path=/nixu/trunk/; revision=4095
2005-10-16 21:48:33 +00:00
Armijn Hemel
e378ef0bf4 update documentation
svn path=/nixu/trunk/; revision=4087
2005-10-14 10:42:06 +00:00
Armijn Hemel
b53b6e5b43 dhclient works now, adapt documentation
svn path=/nixu/trunk/; revision=4080
2005-10-12 22:40:10 +00:00
Armijn Hemel
583ce934a8 - add NIC driver info for vmware
- add profile support

svn path=/nixu/trunk/; revision=4069
2005-10-11 19:39:41 +00:00
Armijn Hemel
83aa84be94 no longer hardcode the directory where we put our stuff in (previously /tmp/arch), but use mktemp instead, which is a *lot* cleaner. Update documentation accordingly.
svn path=/nixu/trunk/; revision=4047
2005-10-11 10:48:10 +00:00
Armijn Hemel
d04db9e95f small howto on how to install today's version of NixOS.
svn path=/nixu/trunk/; revision=4001
2005-10-03 15:44:10 +00:00
Armijn Hemel
18a56f26a2 argh! If we want to have # echoed into a file, make sure to enclose it in
brackets...

svn path=/nixu/trunk/; revision=3980
2005-09-30 16:50:35 +00:00
Armijn Hemel
f8cea32cf1 add some stuff, incl. some things to /etc/inittab, but keep them outcommented
svn path=/nixu/trunk/; revision=3976
2005-09-30 15:22:08 +00:00
Armijn Hemel
9f0a098056 fix error in detection of NixOS install CD
svn path=/nixu/trunk/; revision=3772
2005-09-02 16:47:58 +00:00
Armijn Hemel
066c85b4f0 run a busy loop after we've finished the install, instead of kernel panicking
svn path=/nixu/trunk/; revision=3762
2005-08-31 16:38:34 +00:00
Armijn Hemel
b86eb3cf4f don't forget ramdisk login script
svn path=/nixu/trunk/; revision=3761
2005-08-31 13:26:20 +00:00
Armijn Hemel
f74115278f add a shell on tty2
svn path=/nixu/trunk/; revision=3760
2005-08-31 12:58:46 +00:00
Armijn Hemel
14b2ad157c add logging capabilities. Install log is now copied to /root/install-log.
svn path=/nixu/trunk/; revision=3759
2005-08-31 12:02:28 +00:00
Armijn Hemel
d227f0e83a temporarily outcomment mingetty
svn path=/nixu/trunk/; revision=3757
2005-08-31 10:11:07 +00:00
Armijn Hemel
f64cf78dfa fix for cpio. Between cpio 2.5 and 2.6 semantics of the -c flag (which we
used) has changed. Switch to a flag which is unlikely to change (-H newc)

svn path=/nixu/trunk/; revision=3756
2005-08-31 09:39:41 +00:00
Armijn Hemel
eac09bcb31 cleanups
commit 3750 :)

svn path=/nixu/trunk/; revision=3750
2005-08-30 13:16:16 +00:00
Armijn Hemel
115f0e2a25 we don't use UML at all anymore and the installation instructions are *way*
out of date

svn path=/nixu/trunk/; revision=3749
2005-08-30 13:14:04 +00:00
Armijn Hemel
1581e0c08e remove dependency on /nix, so we can build NixOS inside NixOS
svn path=/nixu/trunk/; revision=3747
2005-08-30 11:23:56 +00:00
Armijn Hemel
142cef0a9e switch to dietlibc coreutils in the initrams. Use thit up until a certain point, after which we switch to the normal coreutils. Oh, this should really be refactored...
svn path=/nixu/trunk/; revision=3738
2005-08-28 16:56:48 +00:00
Armijn Hemel
de289092b2 - various cleanups
- have mingetty listen on tty2 (but this still fails because of missing /dev/log
- get rid of /init on the targetdrive, solely use /sbin/init (and even that has to go one day)
- use dietlibc statically linked e2fsprogs for the installer. More to come :)

svn path=/nixu/trunk/; revision=3734
2005-08-28 00:51:34 +00:00
Armijn Hemel
fff45e114e - register all valid paths inside the Nix database. The .drv files are not included, this is a purely binary deployment.
- add grub to the initial environment

svn path=/nixu/trunk/; revision=3717
2005-08-27 00:36:07 +00:00
Armijn Hemel
a3ae8f4143 remove some debugging statements
svn path=/nixu/trunk/; revision=3716
2005-08-27 00:04:30 +00:00
Armijn Hemel
796f3bb691 add grub configuration file (menu.lst) during installation
svn path=/nixu/trunk/; revision=3715
2005-08-26 22:21:29 +00:00
Armijn Hemel
3b7a4df52e use tar instead of cp, which should be a bit faster (but is it really?)
svn path=/nixu/trunk/; revision=3709
2005-08-26 18:38:57 +00:00
Armijn Hemel
789f716808 use tar for copying nixpkgs instead of cp to speed up installation process.
Commit 3700 :)

svn path=/nixu/trunk/; revision=3700
2005-08-26 16:06:52 +00:00
Armijn Hemel
3dce29bb92 make /var/run in the installdisk, add some code for registering the copied
Nix store in the Nix database, still unfinished

svn path=/nixu/trunk/; revision=3690
2005-08-25 23:10:36 +00:00
Armijn Hemel
de9fa85196 fix error in format
svn path=/nixu/trunk/; revision=3687
2005-08-25 17:53:43 +00:00
Armijn Hemel
af61e91592 add /nix/var/nix/profiles and other nix related directories
svn path=/nixu/trunk/; revision=3680
2005-08-24 14:04:07 +00:00
Armijn Hemel
240a2de945 - make /lib/modules/<hash-part>-<kernelversion>
- make symlinks to "build" and "kernel" in those directories
- copy all modules.* files (like modules.dep). This is done so future add-on
modules can modify these files instead of the ones in the store...

Since the Nix hash is embedded in the path, this can still be considered
safe and it makes modprobe work automagically.

svn path=/nixu/trunk/; revision=3674
2005-08-23 23:07:49 +00:00
Armijn Hemel
52bc4c5681 get the kernel versioning right. Right now it's only printed, but it should be used for creating the /lib/modules/<kernel-version> stuff right
svn path=/nixu/trunk/; revision=3673
2005-08-23 21:00:45 +00:00
Armijn Hemel
9c75e2cb14 fill-disk wants grep
svn path=/nixu/trunk/; revision=3671
2005-08-23 16:53:39 +00:00
Armijn Hemel
d707a61ac2 add nano
svn path=/nixu/trunk/; revision=3670
2005-08-23 15:56:17 +00:00
Armijn Hemel
bc79eeb3b0 add a dummy builder for init
svn path=/nixu/trunk/; revision=3665
2005-08-23 10:53:20 +00:00
Armijn Hemel
fe90fce5d1 mount /dev/pts, zo we've got PTYs (for screen)
svn path=/nixu/trunk/; revision=3661
2005-08-22 14:23:01 +00:00
Armijn Hemel
b1b5fdd7cd change root homedir to /root instead of /home/root
svn path=/nixu/trunk/; revision=3659
2005-08-21 23:15:24 +00:00
Armijn Hemel
f88a356cc6 make correct symlink to /bin/sh and /bin/bash
svn path=/nixu/trunk/; revision=3658
2005-08-21 22:41:22 +00:00
Armijn Hemel
fb451cc09f use the dhcp wrapper, add a directory needed for DHCP
svn path=/nixu/trunk/; revision=3656
2005-08-21 19:56:30 +00:00
Armijn Hemel
4c6230b0a6 add dhcp package. This doesn't work quite nicely though, needs some resolving...
svn path=/nixu/trunk/; revision=3653
2005-08-21 17:39:47 +00:00
Armijn Hemel
6e7614fdb0 use module-init-tools instead of modutils. Now we can insert modules :)
svn path=/nixu/trunk/; revision=3650
2005-08-20 21:49:53 +00:00
Armijn Hemel
49cd9fae36 make /lib/modules
svn path=/nixu/trunk/; revision=3643
2005-08-19 22:39:48 +00:00
Armijn Hemel
30196b9243 incorporate udev in the boot scripts. Now we have loads of devices :)
svn path=/nixu/trunk/; revision=3638
2005-08-19 16:09:31 +00:00
Armijn Hemel
b39fca2ade - add udev (not yet in use)
- clean up 100 MB of unused stuff on the CD

svn path=/nixu/trunk/; revision=3637
2005-08-19 15:26:01 +00:00