Commit Graph

25 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
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
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
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