Malcolm, Yes, the wiki page is a bit outdated. I recently built NixOS on Linode largely following this page instead: http://nixos.org/wiki/Install_NixOS_on_Rackspace_Cloud_Servers
You'll need to build some other natively supported distribution first, and then you can generally follow the above to build a NixOS boot disk. In the Linode dashboard, configure the "kernel" for the NixOS configuration profile to be "pv-grub-x86_64". I also selected "Xenify Distro" and "Disable updatedb", but not "modules.dep Helper" and "Automount devtmpfs". Here are some excerpts from my configuration.nix: { config, pkgs, modulesPath, ... }: { require = [ ./hardware-configuration.nix # This is essentially empty # The following should be used, but can't be currently because # services.mingettys.ttys is no longer a valid specification, so # individual elements are reproduced below # "${modulesPath}/virtualisation/xen-domU.nix" ]; boot = { initrd.kernelModules = [ "xen-blkfront" "xen-fbfront" "xen-netfront" "xen-kbdfront" ]; loader.grub = { enable = true; version = 1; extraPerEntryConfig = "root (hd0)"; device = "nodev"; }; extraKernelParams=["root=/dev/xvda" "console=hvc0" "earlyprintk=xen"]; kernelPackages = pkgs.linuxPackages_3_7; }; fileSystems = [ { mountPoint = "/"; device = "/dev/xvda"; options = "noatime,nodiratime,errors=remount-ro,barrier=0"; } ]; swapDevices = [ { device = "/dev/xvdb"; }]; ... Good Luck, Kevin Malcolm Matalka writes: > Hello! I'm wondering if anyone has any tips on getting NixOS on Linode? > I know there is a wiki page, but it seems outdated. The Linode docs on > running a custom linux distro are also incomplete. > > I was under the impression I could create a NixOS image on Vbox at home, > and then just upload that and run it, but this doesn't seem to be the > case. Could anyone provide a high-level overview of it? > > Thanks! > > /Malcolm > _______________________________________________ > nix-dev mailing list > nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl > http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev -- Kevin Quick _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev