On 17-02-14 10:24:57, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Leo Famulari <l...@famulari.name> skribis: > > > On Thu, Feb 09, 2017 at 06:36:09PM +0000, ng0 wrote: > >> today I had a short message exchange with the hoster "IN-Berlin"[0], a > >> non-commercial group predating the widespread access of internet in > >> Germany. > >> > >> It turns out that it could be as simple as providing them with the raw > >> disk image, so I will give it a try soon. > > > > A few months ago I had a brief discussion with a representative of > > <https://serveraptor.com> about offering GuixSD there. > > > > They said that could accept a bootable ISO or qcow2 image. > > > > So, we could give them the 0.12.0 GuixSD installer image, after > > converting it to the qcow2 format. > > > > I used the following command to convert the installer to qcow2: > > > > $ xz -d guixsd-usb-install-0.12.0.x86_64-linux.xz \ > > && qemu-img convert -O qcow2 guixsd-usb-install-0.12.0.x86_64-linux \ > > guixsd-usb-install-0.12.0.x86_64-linux.qcow2 > > > > The results are available at > > <https://famulari.name/a2249a95c83f60bc75efe89b6fe4f01d/>. > > > > I'd like for someone to try this conversion themself and verify that it > > creates the same qcow2 file. > > The image itself is most likely not bit-reproducible, if that’s what you > mean (non-reproducible packages, uncontrolled file system layout, etc.) > > > If it does, then we can ask Serveraptor to make it available for testing > > on their platform. > > That would be great! > > For these use cases, I wonder if it makes sense to provide the > installation image. Wouldn’t it be more convenient if we provided, say, > the “bare-bones” image or a variant thereof? That way, as a user, you > could directly use it as-is, or just run ‘reconfigure’ in it. > > Thanks, > Ludo’. >
I'd include an openssh aswell, but for IN-Berlin this is what I'll be using in March, a variant of the barebones image. I think in their special case even the installer would work, but with the bare-bones there's already "something". Maybe once it works I give "just the installer" a try on a second VM. -- ng0 -- https://www.inventati.org/patternsinthechaos/