Here are some notes on how to install NixOS 19.09 on a Kimsufi dedicated server.
From the kimsufi webmail interface Link to heading
- Go to the Kimsufi webui
- Choose netboot and select the resuce64pro
- Reboot the server
- Use the root credentials sent by mail from OVH
- SSH to the server with above credentials
From the server rescue mode Link to heading
The following links can be useful:
- https://nixos.org/nixos/manual/index.html#sec-installing-from-other-distro
- https://greizgh.github.io/blog/nixos-kimsufi/
In this procedure, we use the BIOS mode.
# Create the FS layout
parted /dev/sda -- mklabel msdos
parted /dev/sda -- mkpart primary 1MiB 200GiB
parted /dev/sda -- mkpart primary 200GiB -8GiB
parted /dev/sda -- mkpart primary linux-swap -8GiB 100%
mkfs.ext4 -L nixos /dev/sda1
mkswap -L swap /dev/sda2
mount /dev/disk/by-label/nixos /mnt
swapon /dev/sda3
# Create users
groupadd -g 30000 nixbld
useradd -u 30000 -g nixbld -G nixbld nixbld
useradd -m setupuser
passwd setupuser
sed s/root/setupuser/ /etc/sudoers -i
su setupuser -s /bin/bash
# Install Nix
curl https://nixos.org/nix/install | sh
. $HOME/.nix-profile/etc/profile.d/nix.sh
nix-channel --add https://nixos.org/channels/nixos-19.09 nixpkgs
nix-channel --update
# Install NixOS
sudo `which nixos-generate-config` --root /mnt
# Now we need to copy a configuration.nix file to /mnt/etc/nixos/configuration.nix
export PATH=/usr/sbin:/sbin:$PATH
sudo PATH="$PATH" NIX_PATH="$NIX_PATH" `which nixos-install` --root /mnt
Once installed, we need to choose to boot from the hard drive in the Kimsufi webmail, and reboot the server.