diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 1bd9686..2f1b725 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -46,9 +46,45 @@ I tried creating a cloud-init function based on NixOS-infect. You can see the co ## With nixos-anywhere. +First we start up a _really small_ s-1vcpu-1gb. Then we try to install nixos via nixos-anywhere. Notice the `--no-disko-deps` which is recommended for very low RAM systems: + ``` $ nix run github:nix-community/nixos-anywhere -- --no-disko-deps --flake ./nixos-anywhere#digitalocean --target-host root@64.23.242.187 ``` -Cloud init data: -curl http://169.254.169.254/metadata/v1.json +After an hour it was railed on the CPU at 100% and had been for an hour with no network data going anywhere. I gave up. Must be too small. Tried again with a larger system, `s-2vcpu-4gb`: + +``` +$ nix run github:nix-community/nixos-anywhere -- --flake ./nixos-anywhere/flake.nix#digitalocean --target-host root@128.199.4.31 +``` + +This worked and I was then able to ssh in as root. Interestingly, it has no `/etc/nixos/*` files (but the directory does exist). Resulting disk images: + +``` +# fdisk -l +Disk /dev/vda: 80 GiB, 85899345920 bytes, 167772160 sectors +Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes +Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes +I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes +Disklabel type: gpt +Disk identifier: E0C9241B-89EA-4E2C-A0CD-04A3FDEFEDA2 + +Device Start End Sectors Size Type +/dev/vda1 2048 4095 2048 1M BIOS boot +/dev/vda2 4096 1028095 1024000 500M EFI System +/dev/vda3 1028096 167770111 166742016 79.5G Linux filesystem + + +Disk /dev/vdb: 482 KiB, 493568 bytes, 964 sectors +Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes +Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes +I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes + + +Disk /dev/mapper/pool-root: 79.51 GiB, 85370863616 bytes, 166739968 sectors +Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes +Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes +I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes +``` + +Next we'll try something at half that size diff --git a/digitalocean/create-droplet.sh b/digitalocean/create-droplet.sh index d3e1349..2ac1010 100644 --- a/digitalocean/create-droplet.sh +++ b/digitalocean/create-droplet.sh @@ -4,8 +4,8 @@ doctl compute droplet create \ --image debian-12-x64 \ --project-id ce2159e8-02f5-4169-8943-f34ccf812d23 \ --region sfo3 \ - --size s-1vcpu-1gb \ + --size s-2vcpu-4gb \ --ssh-keys 48777034,46710608 \ --tag-name nixos \ --wait - +# --size s-1vcpu-1gb \