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Eelco Dolstra
4798d7a4d2 * Use the same Nix consistently.
svn path=/nixu/trunk/; revision=7067
2006-11-17 16:38:24 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
e1e386cba6 * Clear the inittab.
svn path=/nixu/trunk/; revision=7066
2006-11-17 16:29:31 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
6ae45d46ed * Put Nixpkgs and the NixOS expressions on the installation CD (the
installer needs them).

svn path=/nixu/trunk/; revision=7065
2006-11-17 15:27:31 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
78b2ed263e * Use exportReferencesGraph everywhere.
svn path=/nixu/trunk/; revision=7063
2006-11-17 14:13:21 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
82ce465751 * Use `exportReferencesGraph' to register the references of the
initial Nix installation correctly.

svn path=/nixu/trunk/; revision=7021
2006-11-13 19:01:39 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
91a66e72dc * rescue-system -> boot-environment.
svn path=/nixu/trunk/; revision=7017
2006-11-13 16:19:57 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
f9d0c57385 * Set permissions explicitly.
svn path=/nixu/trunk/; revision=7015
2006-11-13 11:42:23 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
49f8402876 * Boot into a fully functional stage 2.
* Stage 2 init: handle non-read-only roots.

svn path=/nixu/trunk/; revision=7014
2006-11-13 11:41:27 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
0b26af2188 * The installer now installs a configuration on the target device that
boots into stage 1 (kernel+initrd) succesfully.
  
  `system-configuration.nix' contains the definition of the
  configuration to be installed.  The attribute systemConfiguration is
  installed into the profile /nix/var/nix/profiles/system.  Then the
  program /nix/var/nix/profiles/system/bin/switch-to-configuration is
  called to finalise the installation.  This program (generated by
  system-configuration.sh) installs Grub on the drive with a menu that
  contains the entry for the desired kernel and initrd.

  In principle this allows us to do rollbacks to previous system
  configurations by doing `nix-env --rollback' and then calling
  switch-to-configuration to update Grub.  Ideally this should be done
  in a single command (and we should consider the obvious risk of
  garbage collecting the current kernel etc. to which the current Grub
  menu points...).

  Maybe the responsibility for generating the Grub menu should be
  placed somewhere else.  For instance, we could generate a Grub menu
  automatically out of all the generations in the `system' profile.

svn path=/nixu/trunk/; revision=7009
2006-11-12 23:30:03 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
0785dfb9f8 * Lots of refactoring; put the CD image generation in rescue-cd.nix.
Support booting from something other than a CD.  Add some parameters
  to specify the root device.

svn path=/nixu/trunk/; revision=7000
2006-11-12 18:48:47 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
afc05314c4 * The installer now takes a user-specified Nix expression that will be
built in the target Nix store and installed in the "system" user
  environment.  Not quite sure what should go in there, but probably
  the kernel, initrd, the boot scripts and eventually the system
  services.  Maybe grub as well.

svn path=/nixu/trunk/; revision=6993
2006-11-11 22:31:26 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
b7e8c174a1 * Add Perl to the path (since it was already on the CD as a dependency).
svn path=/nixu/trunk/; revision=6992
2006-11-11 22:29:05 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
b60dd36c8f * Set up the target file system, copy Nix, do a nix-pull in a chroot,
and do a nix-env to install some packages.

svn path=/nixu/trunk/; revision=6991
2006-11-11 17:59:08 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
67f3ee3b64 * Probe for the NixOS installation CD.
svn path=/nixu/trunk/; revision=6985
2006-11-10 14:38:15 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
4b333e0f67 * Add the installer and rsync to the path.
svn path=/nixu/trunk/; revision=6979
2006-11-08 09:31:45 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
6705045334 * Start of the installer: copy the closure of Nix to the target device
so we can then do nix-env operations in a chroot to do the actual
  installation.

svn path=/nixu/trunk/; revision=6977
2006-11-08 02:34:14 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
624fe3f2d4 * Automatically bring up the network devices and start dhclient on
them.

svn path=/nixu/trunk/; revision=6976
2006-11-07 22:45:42 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
da8cec4795 * Use udevtrigger to create device nodes for all known devices.
* Plug and play: load kernel modules for all supported PCI devices
  automatically.

svn path=/nixu/trunk/; revision=6975
2006-11-07 22:05:27 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
8a43fcd57c * Stage 1: clean up better (unmount /proc and /sys, remount new root
to /).
* Stage 2: use sysvinit to create a bunch of mingetty's on virtual
  consoles 1-6.  Show a nice welcoming message.  Start syslogd and log
  everything to tty10.

svn path=/nixu/trunk/; revision=6963
2006-11-06 22:21:50 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
1cec62ba5d * Add additional packages to the path of the interactive shell started
at the end of stage 2.
* Stage 2: set MODULE_DIR to point at a full module tree.

svn path=/nixu/trunk/; revision=6954
2006-11-04 13:25:10 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
2e2af9df0a * Doh x3.
svn path=/nixu/trunk/; revision=6951
2006-11-04 12:08:10 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
09cdc88291 * Doh x2.
svn path=/nixu/trunk/; revision=6950
2006-11-04 12:08:02 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
07d2f691f0 * Doh.
svn path=/nixu/trunk/; revision=6949
2006-11-04 12:07:16 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
b3c6510393 * Conform to build farm conventions.
svn path=/nixu/trunk/; revision=6948
2006-11-04 12:00:05 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
eb1c50ebc9 * Version number, stable marker.
svn path=/nixu/trunk/; revision=6947
2006-11-04 11:27:08 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
db08678bd4 * Create dummy mount points in the ISO image for /proc etc.
svn path=/nixu/trunk/; revision=6946
2006-11-04 00:18:22 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
1691c66673 * Nix expression for stage 2.
* Start stage 2 from stage 1.

svn path=/nixu/trunk/; revision=6945
2006-11-04 00:01:13 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
14cc7b8828 * Support adding the closure of a set of store paths to the ISO
image (along with an /init symlink for stage 2 of the boot
  process).

svn path=/nixu/trunk/; revision=6944
2006-11-03 23:41:57 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
1aa35c8267 * Instead of adding all of util-linux to the initd, add just mount
(and nuke its references so that we don't get glibc etc.).  The
  initrd is now 3.2 MB (and that includes the entire staticTools from
  the stdenv bootstrap, most of which we don't actually need).

svn path=/nixu/trunk/; revision=6942
2006-11-03 13:35:02 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
a94dd5c8b1 * Given a kernel build (with modules in $kernel/lib/modules/VERSION),
`modules-closure.nix' produces a module tree in
  $out/lib/modules/VERSION that contains only the modules identified
  by `rootModules', plus their dependencies.  It also generates an
  appropriate modules.dep.  This is useful for initrds, as we
  obviously don't want a copy of the entire kernel module tree in the
  initial RAM disk.

svn path=/nixu/trunk/; revision=6939
2006-11-03 11:47:40 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
412fcfe2f7 * Fixes.
svn path=/nixu/trunk/; revision=6937
2006-11-03 09:49:34 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
6eb94a9bfd * Load some modules, mount the install CD.
svn path=/nixu/trunk/; revision=6936
2006-11-03 09:45:06 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
23381ed03f * Add the module tools, util-linux and the kernel modules to the
initrd.  Of course, the next step is to only add the kernel modules
  that we're going to need.

svn path=/nixu/trunk/; revision=6934
2006-11-03 00:36:08 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
707dd20538 * Make device nodes in the stage 1 init (copied from ../init.sh).
svn path=/nixu/trunk/; revision=6932
2006-11-02 23:58:06 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
ae4b6973bb * Oops.
svn path=/nixu/trunk/; revision=6930
2006-11-02 22:50:30 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
2d31e1b6d6 * A minimal boot script for stage 1 of the boot (loading kernel
modules).  The closure of the boot script is all we need in the
  initrd.

svn path=/nixu/trunk/; revision=6929
2006-11-02 22:48:01 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
3336325781 * Remove cruft. BTW, to build the rescue ISO image:
$ nix-build ./rescue-system.nix -A rescueCD

  Point VMware at ./result/nixos.iso and voila.

svn path=/nixu/trunk/; revision=6927
2006-11-02 17:58:33 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
fff7011066 Purifying the NixOS build stuff.
* make-initrd.nix: builds a initial RAM disk.  The resulting initrd
  will contain just a Nix store containing the specified lists of
  packages, with a symlink `/init' to the actual init program in the
  Nix store.

* make-iso9660-image.nix: builds a bootable ISO image.

* rescue-system.nix: builds a bootable ISO image (using the two
  function above) that boots into a very minimal Linux environment
  containing (at the moment) the dietlibc-based bash and coreutils,
  loaded from the initrd.  Eventually this should become a two-stage
  boot (load kernel modules from the initrd, mount the actual root
  file system (e.g., the installation CD), call the real init).

  The rescue system (probably a misnomer) should become the minimal
  environment necessary for the installer (on CD) and the boot process
  of an installed NixOS (on HD).

svn path=/nixu/trunk/; revision=6926
2006-11-02 17:56:50 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
f546cad4b7 * Some fixes.
svn path=/nixu/trunk/; revision=6923
2006-11-01 12:07:22 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
2b995a1150 * Turns out that nested backticks (like $(... $(...))) are evil, since
bash doesn't check the exit status of the inner commands.  Replace
  the $(nix-store -r $(nix-instantiate)) calls with nix-build.

* Some of the diet packages are gone now, use the dietlibc stdenv.

svn path=/nixu/trunk/; revision=6920
2006-10-31 20:28:35 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
c55460a027 * Use tar 1.15.1 for now (1.16 is buggy).
* 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.
svn path=/nixu/trunk/; revision=6914
2006-10-31 12:15:08 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
89c31b1c2c * Sketch for purely functional NixOS configuration.
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
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.
svn path=/nixu/trunk/; revision=6602
2006-09-24 22:03:33 +00:00
Armijn Hemel
da7b60735b -r, not -q
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.
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...
svn path=/nixu/trunk/; revision=6321
2006-08-30 00:15:02 +00:00
Armijn Hemel
964780812d fix NIXOS-38
svn path=/nixu/trunk/; revision=6317
2006-08-29 21:58:33 +00:00
Armijn Hemel
b5bdf9b453 -r, not -q
svn path=/nixu/trunk/; revision=6295
2006-08-28 13:41:41 +00:00