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[GPLv3+] install nixos over the existing OS in a DigitalOcean droplet (and others with minor modifications)

10 mentions on Hacker News by 9 people: 0 stories, 10 comments · first 2017-02-11 · latest 2024-07-23

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  1. …that don't natively offer it. It's worked well on the handful of boxes I've ran it on. (1): https://github.com/elitak/nixos-infect
    comment by DocChi77 · 2024-07-23 · in From Linux to NetBSD, with SSH Only
  2. …but cleverca22's work is solid as well there's also the earlier https://github.com/elitak/nixos-infect and the built-in NIXOS_LUSTRATE: https://nixos.org/manual/nixos/stable/#sec-installing-from-o... I'd go with nixos-anyw
  3. …installing anything else, in case you want to start from a fresh Arch image in the future. [0] https://github.com/elitak/nixos-infect [1] https://wiki.alpinelinux.org/wiki/Replacing_non-Alpine_Linux... [2]…
  4. Related: https://www.reddit.com/r/NixOS/comments/u5gi6e/whats_a_good_... https://github.com/elitak/nixos-infect https://tornadovps.com/documentation/nixos https://github.com/dalisoft/awesome-hosting
  5. …I have no idea how reliable it is though!). I managed to deploy NixOS there through nixos-infect ( https://github.com/elitak/nixos-infect ), and then further configure it with NixOps. That said, using NixOps does currently require a Linux…
    comment by akavel · 2023-09-17 · in Tech Independence
  6. …option is to use nixos-infect, which will replace a Linux distribution with a NixOS distribution. https://github.com/elitak/nixos-infect -- e.g. this blogpost discusses using nixos-infect to deploy NixOS for a cloud provider which doesn't…
  7. …are needed by NixOS to boot. I highly recommend people new to running servers to try NixOS. [0] https://github.com/elitak/nixos-infect [1] https://nixos.org/manual/nixos/unstable/index.html#sec-insta...
  8. Have you tried https://github.com/elitak/nixos-infect ? Works like a charm (with DO). It's a oneliner, you don't need to fiddle with anything. If it won't work from the user config option, just paste it in the live VPS and it will rebuild…
    comment by 1000101 · 2020-06-03 · in A Nix terminology primer by a newcomer
  9. Have you seen https://github.com/elitak/nixos-infect ? It allows you to easily re-create/infect existing distros into NixOS. Super helpful, works as a charm (tested on DO).
    comment by 1000101 · 2020-06-03 · in A Nix terminology primer by a newcomer
  10. https://github.com/elitak/nixos-infect is similar but doesn't require to pivot root.