Tobias Geerinckx-Rice writes: > Chris[es], > > [If ‘commodity’ means ‘whatever this OpenStack thing might be’, or > anything involving comparison of pets to cattle, this is not that. But > this caught my eye:] > > On 02/12/16 20:51, Christopher Baines wrote: >> Thanks for looking in to this Chris! I'm using Bytemark for personal >> servers, and have tried and failed to install Guix from a Debian >> live cd. > > Interesting. That should work. > > I've been running a pure (from scratch) GuixSD VPS[0] for the better > half of a year. I bootstrapped from a provider-supplied SystemRescueCD > image, since it has all required packages pre-installed, but any sane > live system should do.
Hey great! And yeah, at this point, maybe if I'm looking at booting from a .ISO file, while generating a .ISO file is a noble goal still, I problably should just try installing from another distro. > Partition and format the target device. Mount that. Upload > shiny-new-system.scm. Get your swapon. Bind mount /gnu, /var/guix and > /tmp from temporary directories on /mnt, to prevent ‘guix system init > /mnt’ filling up the RAM disc. Watch the builds scroll by. Reboot. Done. > > If I forgot anything, it can't have been much. > > A similar approach should work on all hosting providers that support > booting live CDs that can run out of RAM. I suspect one could ‘snapshot’ > the base system on providers that support it, to spin up additional > instances faster. I haven't tried; installing from scratch is just as > easy and keeps the bits fresh. > > No idea how this relates to ‘commodity hosting’: SystemRescueCD happens > to require console access to set the root password for SSH, but after > that the entire deployment can be scripted. Mine are. > > It's as far from underdocumented (to the point of being proprietary) > image layouts and shiny ‘API’s as possible, which is a nice bonus. :-) > > Kind regards, > > T G-R Sounds good :) > [0]: <https://liteserver.nl/>: I happily endorse them, and can't wait to > send them a ‘Please add GuixSD-1.0.iso’ ticket when the time comes. Wow cool, some of those are quite cheap!