* Installing Guix on Linode: a how-to
@ 2020-07-08 23:01 Christopher Lemmer Webber
2020-07-08 23:56 ` Gary Johnson
` (2 more replies)
0 siblings, 3 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Christopher Lemmer Webber @ 2020-07-08 23:01 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: help-guix
Hi! I finally got Guix running on Linode! I'm excited about it!
Here's the process (thanks to jackhill on freenode for helping me figure
out all the stuff involving the bootloader!). It's very bullet-point'y,
but here's the steps I took:
- Start with a Debian (or whatever) server. Be sure to add your ssh
key for easy login. We'll be using the default distro as a way to
bootstrap Guix.
- Power it down.
- In the Disks/Configurations tab, resize the Debian disk to be
smaller, maybe 30GB or something.
- "Add a disk", with the following:
- Label: "Guix"
- Filesystem: ext4
- Set it to the remaining size
- Next to the "configuration" that comes with the default image,
press "..." and select "Edit", then on that menu add to
/dev/sdc the "Guix" label
- Now "Add a Configuration", with the following:
- Label: Guix
- VM Mode: Paravirtualization (the default?? don't know if this matters)
- Kernel: Grub 2 (it's at the bottom! This step is *IMPORTANT*)
- Block device assignment:
- /dev/sda: Guix
- /dev/sdb: swap
- Root device: /dev/sda
- Turn off all the filesystem/boot helpers
- Now power it back up, picking the Debian configuration
- Once it's booted up, ssh root@<your-server-ip-here>
- Run the "install guix form binary installer" steps:
- $ sudo apt-get install gpg
- $ wget https://sv.gnu.org/people/viewgpg.php?user_id=15145 -qO - | gpg --import -
- $ wget https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/plain/etc/guix-install.sh
- $ chmod +x guix-install.sh
- $ ./guix-install.sh
- $ guix pull
- Now it's time to write out a config for the server. The key stuff is
below, save as guix-config.scm:
#+BEGIN_SRC scheme
(use-modules (gnu)
(guix modules))
(use-service-modules networking
ssh)
(use-package-modules admin
certs
package-management
ssh
tls)
(operating-system
(host-name "my-server")
(timezone "America/New_York")
(locale "en_US.UTF-8")
;; This goofy code will generate the grub.cfg
;; without installing the grub bootloader on disk.
(bootloader (bootloader-configuration
(bootloader
(bootloader
(inherit grub-bootloader)
(installer #~(const #t))))))
(file-systems (cons (file-system
(device "/dev/sda")
(mount-point "/")
(type "ext4"))
%base-file-systems))
(initrd-modules (cons "virtio_scsi" ; Needed to find the disk
%base-initrd-modules))
(users (cons (user-account
(name "janedoe")
(group "users")
;; Adding the account to the "wheel" group
;; makes it a sudoer.
(supplementary-groups '("wheel"))
(home-directory "/home/janedoe"))
%base-user-accounts))
(packages (cons* nss-certs ;for HTTPS access
openssh-sans-x
%base-packages))
(services (cons*
(service dhcp-client-service-type)
(service openssh-service-type
(openssh-configuration
(openssh openssh-sans-x)
(password-authentication? #f)
(authorized-keys
`(("janedoe" ,(local-file "janedoe_rsa.pub"))
;; Is this a good idea? Well if you don't add it
;; you have to manually set your user's password
;; via the glish console...
("root" ,(local-file "janedoe_rsa.pub"))))))
%base-services)))
#+END_SRC
- Replace the following fields in the above configuration:
- (host-name "my-server") ; replace with your server name
- (name "janedoe") ; replace with your username
- ("janedoe" ,(local-file "janedoe_rsa.pub")) ; here too
- Note the same above for root, which I don't feel great about, but
otherwise you'll need to log in via the linode "glish" console to
log in as root and set the user's initial password before you can
start using sudo (is there another way around this?)
- Save your ssh public key (~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub) as
<your-username-here>_rsa.pub or whatever in the same directory
- Mount the guix drive:
$ mkdir /mnt/guix
$ mount /dev/sdc /mnt/guix
- Due to the way we set things up above, we don't install Grub
completely, just our grub configuration file. So we need to copy
over some of the other Grub stuff that's already there:
$ mkdir -p /mnt/guix/boot/grub
$ cp -r /boot/grub/* /mnt/guix/boot/grub/
- Now initialize the Guix installation:
$ guix system init guix-config.scm /mnt/guix
- Ok, power it down!
- Now from the linode console, select boot and select "Guix"
- Once it boots, you should be able to log in via ssh! (The server
config will have changed though.)
- Be sure to set your password and root's password.
- Horray! At this point you can shut down the server, delete the
Debian disk, and resize the Guix to the rest of the size.
Congratulations!
BTW, if you save it as a disk image right at this point, you'll have an
easy time spinning up new Guix images!
Let me know if this guide helps you!
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* Re: Installing Guix on Linode: a how-to
2020-07-08 23:01 Installing Guix on Linode: a how-to Christopher Lemmer Webber
@ 2020-07-08 23:56 ` Gary Johnson
2020-07-21 20:44 ` Christopher Lemmer Webber
2020-07-10 22:16 ` jbranso
2020-07-11 1:15 ` jbranso
2 siblings, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: Gary Johnson @ 2020-07-08 23:56 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Christopher Lemmer Webber; +Cc: help-guix
Can someone add this tutorial to the Guix Cookbook? I've been wondering
about how to do this for some time now, and it would be great to have it
saved somewhere obvious like that for future reference.
Thanks,
Gary
Christopher Lemmer Webber <cwebber@dustycloud.org> writes:
> Hi! I finally got Guix running on Linode! I'm excited about it!
> Here's the process (thanks to jackhill on freenode for helping me figure
> out all the stuff involving the bootloader!). It's very bullet-point'y,
> but here's the steps I took:
>
> - Start with a Debian (or whatever) server. Be sure to add your ssh
> key for easy login. We'll be using the default distro as a way to
> bootstrap Guix.
> - Power it down.
> - In the Disks/Configurations tab, resize the Debian disk to be
> smaller, maybe 30GB or something.
> - "Add a disk", with the following:
> - Label: "Guix"
> - Filesystem: ext4
> - Set it to the remaining size
> - Next to the "configuration" that comes with the default image,
> press "..." and select "Edit", then on that menu add to
> /dev/sdc the "Guix" label
> - Now "Add a Configuration", with the following:
> - Label: Guix
> - VM Mode: Paravirtualization (the default?? don't know if this matters)
> - Kernel: Grub 2 (it's at the bottom! This step is *IMPORTANT*)
> - Block device assignment:
> - /dev/sda: Guix
> - /dev/sdb: swap
> - Root device: /dev/sda
> - Turn off all the filesystem/boot helpers
> - Now power it back up, picking the Debian configuration
> - Once it's booted up, ssh root@<your-server-ip-here>
> - Run the "install guix form binary installer" steps:
> - $ sudo apt-get install gpg
> - $ wget https://sv.gnu.org/people/viewgpg.php?user_id=15145 -qO - | gpg --import -
> - $ wget https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/plain/etc/guix-install.sh
> - $ chmod +x guix-install.sh
> - $ ./guix-install.sh
> - $ guix pull
>
> - Now it's time to write out a config for the server. The key stuff is
> below, save as guix-config.scm:
>
> #+BEGIN_SRC scheme
> (use-modules (gnu)
> (guix modules))
> (use-service-modules networking
> ssh)
> (use-package-modules admin
> certs
> package-management
> ssh
> tls)
>
> (operating-system
> (host-name "my-server")
> (timezone "America/New_York")
> (locale "en_US.UTF-8")
> ;; This goofy code will generate the grub.cfg
> ;; without installing the grub bootloader on disk.
> (bootloader (bootloader-configuration
> (bootloader
> (bootloader
> (inherit grub-bootloader)
> (installer #~(const #t))))))
> (file-systems (cons (file-system
> (device "/dev/sda")
> (mount-point "/")
> (type "ext4"))
> %base-file-systems))
>
> (initrd-modules (cons "virtio_scsi" ; Needed to find the disk
> %base-initrd-modules))
>
> (users (cons (user-account
> (name "janedoe")
> (group "users")
> ;; Adding the account to the "wheel" group
> ;; makes it a sudoer.
> (supplementary-groups '("wheel"))
> (home-directory "/home/janedoe"))
> %base-user-accounts))
>
> (packages (cons* nss-certs ;for HTTPS access
> openssh-sans-x
> %base-packages))
>
> (services (cons*
> (service dhcp-client-service-type)
> (service openssh-service-type
> (openssh-configuration
> (openssh openssh-sans-x)
> (password-authentication? #f)
> (authorized-keys
> `(("janedoe" ,(local-file "janedoe_rsa.pub"))
> ;; Is this a good idea? Well if you don't add it
> ;; you have to manually set your user's password
> ;; via the glish console...
> ("root" ,(local-file "janedoe_rsa.pub"))))))
> %base-services)))
> #+END_SRC
>
> - Replace the following fields in the above configuration:
> - (host-name "my-server") ; replace with your server name
> - (name "janedoe") ; replace with your username
> - ("janedoe" ,(local-file "janedoe_rsa.pub")) ; here too
> - Note the same above for root, which I don't feel great about, but
> otherwise you'll need to log in via the linode "glish" console to
> log in as root and set the user's initial password before you can
> start using sudo (is there another way around this?)
>
> - Save your ssh public key (~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub) as
> <your-username-here>_rsa.pub or whatever in the same directory
>
> - Mount the guix drive:
> $ mkdir /mnt/guix
> $ mount /dev/sdc /mnt/guix
>
> - Due to the way we set things up above, we don't install Grub
> completely, just our grub configuration file. So we need to copy
> over some of the other Grub stuff that's already there:
> $ mkdir -p /mnt/guix/boot/grub
> $ cp -r /boot/grub/* /mnt/guix/boot/grub/
>
> - Now initialize the Guix installation:
> $ guix system init guix-config.scm /mnt/guix
>
> - Ok, power it down!
> - Now from the linode console, select boot and select "Guix"
>
> - Once it boots, you should be able to log in via ssh! (The server
> config will have changed though.)
>
> - Be sure to set your password and root's password.
>
> - Horray! At this point you can shut down the server, delete the
> Debian disk, and resize the Guix to the rest of the size.
> Congratulations!
>
> BTW, if you save it as a disk image right at this point, you'll have an
> easy time spinning up new Guix images!
>
> Let me know if this guide helps you!
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* Re: Installing Guix on Linode: a how-to
2020-07-08 23:01 Installing Guix on Linode: a how-to Christopher Lemmer Webber
2020-07-08 23:56 ` Gary Johnson
@ 2020-07-10 22:16 ` jbranso
2020-07-11 1:15 ` jbranso
2 siblings, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: jbranso @ 2020-07-10 22:16 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: help-guix
I will volunteer to add this to the guix cookbook. If I don't send a patch in a week or so, then
that means I got lazy and decided not to do it.
July 8, 2020 7:57 PM, "Gary Johnson" <lambdatronic@disroot.org> wrote:
> Can someone add this tutorial to the Guix Cookbook? I've been wondering
> about how to do this for some time now, and it would be great to have it
> saved somewhere obvious like that for future reference.
>
> Thanks,
> Gary
>
> Christopher Lemmer Webber <cwebber@dustycloud.org> writes:
>
>> Hi! I finally got Guix running on Linode! I'm excited about it!
>> Here's the process (thanks to jackhill on freenode for helping me figure
>> out all the stuff involving the bootloader!). It's very bullet-point'y,
>> but here's the steps I took:
>>
>> - Start with a Debian (or whatever) server. Be sure to add your ssh
>> key for easy login. We'll be using the default distro as a way to
>> bootstrap Guix.
>> - Power it down.
>> - In the Disks/Configurations tab, resize the Debian disk to be
>> smaller, maybe 30GB or something.
>> - "Add a disk", with the following:
>> - Label: "Guix"
>> - Filesystem: ext4
>> - Set it to the remaining size
>> - Next to the "configuration" that comes with the default image,
>> press "..." and select "Edit", then on that menu add to
>> /dev/sdc the "Guix" label
>> - Now "Add a Configuration", with the following:
>> - Label: Guix
>> - VM Mode: Paravirtualization (the default?? don't know if this matters)
>> - Kernel: Grub 2 (it's at the bottom! This step is *IMPORTANT*)
>> - Block device assignment:
>> - /dev/sda: Guix
>> - /dev/sdb: swap
>> - Root device: /dev/sda
>> - Turn off all the filesystem/boot helpers
>> - Now power it back up, picking the Debian configuration
>> - Once it's booted up, ssh root@<your-server-ip-here>
>> - Run the "install guix form binary installer" steps:
>> - $ sudo apt-get install gpg
>> - $ wget https://sv.gnu.org/people/viewgpg.php?user_id=15145 -qO - | gpg --import -
>> - $ wget https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/plain/etc/guix-install.sh
>> - $ chmod +x guix-install.sh
>> - $ ./guix-install.sh
>> - $ guix pull
>>
>> - Now it's time to write out a config for the server. The key stuff is
>> below, save as guix-config.scm:
>>
>> #+BEGIN_SRC scheme
>> (use-modules (gnu)
>> (guix modules))
>> (use-service-modules networking
>> ssh)
>> (use-package-modules admin
>> certs
>> package-management
>> ssh
>> tls)
>>
>> (operating-system
>> (host-name "my-server")
>> (timezone "America/New_York")
>> (locale "en_US.UTF-8")
>> ;; This goofy code will generate the grub.cfg
>> ;; without installing the grub bootloader on disk.
>> (bootloader (bootloader-configuration
>> (bootloader
>> (bootloader
>> (inherit grub-bootloader)
>> (installer #~(const #t))))))
>> (file-systems (cons (file-system
>> (device "/dev/sda")
>> (mount-point "/")
>> (type "ext4"))
>> %base-file-systems))
>>
>> (initrd-modules (cons "virtio_scsi" ; Needed to find the disk
>> %base-initrd-modules))
>>
>> (users (cons (user-account
>> (name "janedoe")
>> (group "users")
>> ;; Adding the account to the "wheel" group
>> ;; makes it a sudoer.
>> (supplementary-groups '("wheel"))
>> (home-directory "/home/janedoe"))
>> %base-user-accounts))
>>
>> (packages (cons* nss-certs ;for HTTPS access
>> openssh-sans-x
>> %base-packages))
>>
>> (services (cons*
>> (service dhcp-client-service-type)
>> (service openssh-service-type
>> (openssh-configuration
>> (openssh openssh-sans-x)
>> (password-authentication? #f)
>> (authorized-keys
>> `(("janedoe" ,(local-file "janedoe_rsa.pub"))
>> ;; Is this a good idea? Well if you don't add it
>> ;; you have to manually set your user's password
>> ;; via the glish console...
>> ("root" ,(local-file "janedoe_rsa.pub"))))))
>> %base-services)))
>> #+END_SRC
>>
>> - Replace the following fields in the above configuration:
>> - (host-name "my-server") ; replace with your server name
>> - (name "janedoe") ; replace with your username
>> - ("janedoe" ,(local-file "janedoe_rsa.pub")) ; here too
>> - Note the same above for root, which I don't feel great about, but
>> otherwise you'll need to log in via the linode "glish" console to
>> log in as root and set the user's initial password before you can
>> start using sudo (is there another way around this?)
>>
>> - Save your ssh public key (~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub) as
>> <your-username-here>_rsa.pub or whatever in the same directory
>>
>> - Mount the guix drive:
>> $ mkdir /mnt/guix
>> $ mount /dev/sdc /mnt/guix
>>
>> - Due to the way we set things up above, we don't install Grub
>> completely, just our grub configuration file. So we need to copy
>> over some of the other Grub stuff that's already there:
>> $ mkdir -p /mnt/guix/boot/grub
>> $ cp -r /boot/grub/* /mnt/guix/boot/grub/
>>
>> - Now initialize the Guix installation:
>> $ guix system init guix-config.scm /mnt/guix
>>
>> - Ok, power it down!
>> - Now from the linode console, select boot and select "Guix"
>>
>> - Once it boots, you should be able to log in via ssh! (The server
>> config will have changed though.)
>>
>> - Be sure to set your password and root's password.
>>
>> - Horray! At this point you can shut down the server, delete the
>> Debian disk, and resize the Guix to the rest of the size.
>> Congratulations!
>>
>> BTW, if you save it as a disk image right at this point, you'll have an
>> easy time spinning up new Guix images!
>>
>> Let me know if this guide helps you!
>
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* Re: Installing Guix on Linode: a how-to
2020-07-08 23:01 Installing Guix on Linode: a how-to Christopher Lemmer Webber
2020-07-08 23:56 ` Gary Johnson
2020-07-10 22:16 ` jbranso
@ 2020-07-11 1:15 ` jbranso
2020-07-21 20:44 ` Christopher Lemmer Webber
2 siblings, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: jbranso @ 2020-07-11 1:15 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: help-guix
Ok I sent it to guix-patches.
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-patches/2020-07/msg00294.html
July 10, 2020 6:17 PM, jbranso@dismail.de wrote:
> I will volunteer to add this to the guix cookbook. If I don't send a patch in a week or so, then
> that means I got lazy and decided not to do it.
>
> July 8, 2020 7:57 PM, "Gary Johnson" <lambdatronic@disroot.org> wrote:
>
>> Can someone add this tutorial to the Guix Cookbook? I've been wondering
>> about how to do this for some time now, and it would be great to have it
>> saved somewhere obvious like that for future reference.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Gary
>>
>> Christopher Lemmer Webber <cwebber@dustycloud.org> writes:
>>
>>> Hi! I finally got Guix running on Linode! I'm excited about it!
>>> Here's the process (thanks to jackhill on freenode for helping me figure
>>> out all the stuff involving the bootloader!). It's very bullet-point'y,
>>> but here's the steps I took:
>>>
>>> - Start with a Debian (or whatever) server. Be sure to add your ssh
>>> key for easy login. We'll be using the default distro as a way to
>>> bootstrap Guix.
>>> - Power it down.
>>> - In the Disks/Configurations tab, resize the Debian disk to be
>>> smaller, maybe 30GB or something.
>>> - "Add a disk", with the following:
>>> - Label: "Guix"
>>> - Filesystem: ext4
>>> - Set it to the remaining size
>>> - Next to the "configuration" that comes with the default image,
>>> press "..." and select "Edit", then on that menu add to
>>> /dev/sdc the "Guix" label
>>> - Now "Add a Configuration", with the following:
>>> - Label: Guix
>>> - VM Mode: Paravirtualization (the default?? don't know if this matters)
>>> - Kernel: Grub 2 (it's at the bottom! This step is *IMPORTANT*)
>>> - Block device assignment:
>>> - /dev/sda: Guix
>>> - /dev/sdb: swap
>>> - Root device: /dev/sda
>>> - Turn off all the filesystem/boot helpers
>>> - Now power it back up, picking the Debian configuration
>>> - Once it's booted up, ssh root@<your-server-ip-here>
>>> - Run the "install guix form binary installer" steps:
>>> - $ sudo apt-get install gpg
>>> - $ wget https://sv.gnu.org/people/viewgpg.php?user_id=15145 -qO - | gpg --import -
>>> - $ wget https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/plain/etc/guix-install.sh
>>> - $ chmod +x guix-install.sh
>>> - $ ./guix-install.sh
>>> - $ guix pull
>>>
>>> - Now it's time to write out a config for the server. The key stuff is
>>> below, save as guix-config.scm:
>>>
>>> #+BEGIN_SRC scheme
>>> (use-modules (gnu)
>>> (guix modules))
>>> (use-service-modules networking
>>> ssh)
>>> (use-package-modules admin
>>> certs
>>> package-management
>>> ssh
>>> tls)
>>>
>>> (operating-system
>>> (host-name "my-server")
>>> (timezone "America/New_York")
>>> (locale "en_US.UTF-8")
>>> ;; This goofy code will generate the grub.cfg
>>> ;; without installing the grub bootloader on disk.
>>> (bootloader (bootloader-configuration
>>> (bootloader
>>> (bootloader
>>> (inherit grub-bootloader)
>>> (installer #~(const #t))))))
>>> (file-systems (cons (file-system
>>> (device "/dev/sda")
>>> (mount-point "/")
>>> (type "ext4"))
>>> %base-file-systems))
>>>
>>> (initrd-modules (cons "virtio_scsi" ; Needed to find the disk
>>> %base-initrd-modules))
>>>
>>> (users (cons (user-account
>>> (name "janedoe")
>>> (group "users")
>>> ;; Adding the account to the "wheel" group
>>> ;; makes it a sudoer.
>>> (supplementary-groups '("wheel"))
>>> (home-directory "/home/janedoe"))
>>> %base-user-accounts))
>>>
>>> (packages (cons* nss-certs ;for HTTPS access
>>> openssh-sans-x
>>> %base-packages))
>>>
>>> (services (cons*
>>> (service dhcp-client-service-type)
>>> (service openssh-service-type
>>> (openssh-configuration
>>> (openssh openssh-sans-x)
>>> (password-authentication? #f)
>>> (authorized-keys
>>> `(("janedoe" ,(local-file "janedoe_rsa.pub"))
>>> ;; Is this a good idea? Well if you don't add it
>>> ;; you have to manually set your user's password
>>> ;; via the glish console...
>>> ("root" ,(local-file "janedoe_rsa.pub"))))))
>>> %base-services)))
>>> #+END_SRC
>>>
>>> - Replace the following fields in the above configuration:
>>> - (host-name "my-server") ; replace with your server name
>>> - (name "janedoe") ; replace with your username
>>> - ("janedoe" ,(local-file "janedoe_rsa.pub")) ; here too
>>> - Note the same above for root, which I don't feel great about, but
>>> otherwise you'll need to log in via the linode "glish" console to
>>> log in as root and set the user's initial password before you can
>>> start using sudo (is there another way around this?)
>>>
>>> - Save your ssh public key (~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub) as
>>> <your-username-here>_rsa.pub or whatever in the same directory
>>>
>>> - Mount the guix drive:
>>> $ mkdir /mnt/guix
>>> $ mount /dev/sdc /mnt/guix
>>>
>>> - Due to the way we set things up above, we don't install Grub
>>> completely, just our grub configuration file. So we need to copy
>>> over some of the other Grub stuff that's already there:
>>> $ mkdir -p /mnt/guix/boot/grub
>>> $ cp -r /boot/grub/* /mnt/guix/boot/grub/
>>>
>>> - Now initialize the Guix installation:
>>> $ guix system init guix-config.scm /mnt/guix
>>>
>>> - Ok, power it down!
>>> - Now from the linode console, select boot and select "Guix"
>>>
>>> - Once it boots, you should be able to log in via ssh! (The server
>>> config will have changed though.)
>>>
>>> - Be sure to set your password and root's password.
>>>
>>> - Horray! At this point you can shut down the server, delete the
>>> Debian disk, and resize the Guix to the rest of the size.
>>> Congratulations!
>>>
>>> BTW, if you save it as a disk image right at this point, you'll have an
>>> easy time spinning up new Guix images!
>>>
>>> Let me know if this guide helps you!
>>
>> --
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* Re: Installing Guix on Linode: a how-to
2020-07-08 23:56 ` Gary Johnson
@ 2020-07-21 20:44 ` Christopher Lemmer Webber
0 siblings, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Christopher Lemmer Webber @ 2020-07-21 20:44 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Gary Johnson; +Cc: help-guix
I'd be totally supportive of it being put in the cookbook... I don't
have time to do it myself right now, though...
Gary Johnson writes:
> Can someone add this tutorial to the Guix Cookbook? I've been wondering
> about how to do this for some time now, and it would be great to have it
> saved somewhere obvious like that for future reference.
>
> Thanks,
> Gary
>
> Christopher Lemmer Webber <cwebber@dustycloud.org> writes:
>
>> Hi! I finally got Guix running on Linode! I'm excited about it!
>> Here's the process (thanks to jackhill on freenode for helping me figure
>> out all the stuff involving the bootloader!). It's very bullet-point'y,
>> but here's the steps I took:
>>
>> - Start with a Debian (or whatever) server. Be sure to add your ssh
>> key for easy login. We'll be using the default distro as a way to
>> bootstrap Guix.
>> - Power it down.
>> - In the Disks/Configurations tab, resize the Debian disk to be
>> smaller, maybe 30GB or something.
>> - "Add a disk", with the following:
>> - Label: "Guix"
>> - Filesystem: ext4
>> - Set it to the remaining size
>> - Next to the "configuration" that comes with the default image,
>> press "..." and select "Edit", then on that menu add to
>> /dev/sdc the "Guix" label
>> - Now "Add a Configuration", with the following:
>> - Label: Guix
>> - VM Mode: Paravirtualization (the default?? don't know if this matters)
>> - Kernel: Grub 2 (it's at the bottom! This step is *IMPORTANT*)
>> - Block device assignment:
>> - /dev/sda: Guix
>> - /dev/sdb: swap
>> - Root device: /dev/sda
>> - Turn off all the filesystem/boot helpers
>> - Now power it back up, picking the Debian configuration
>> - Once it's booted up, ssh root@<your-server-ip-here>
>> - Run the "install guix form binary installer" steps:
>> - $ sudo apt-get install gpg
>> - $ wget https://sv.gnu.org/people/viewgpg.php?user_id=15145 -qO - | gpg --import -
>> - $ wget https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/plain/etc/guix-install.sh
>> - $ chmod +x guix-install.sh
>> - $ ./guix-install.sh
>> - $ guix pull
>>
>> - Now it's time to write out a config for the server. The key stuff is
>> below, save as guix-config.scm:
>>
>> #+BEGIN_SRC scheme
>> (use-modules (gnu)
>> (guix modules))
>> (use-service-modules networking
>> ssh)
>> (use-package-modules admin
>> certs
>> package-management
>> ssh
>> tls)
>>
>> (operating-system
>> (host-name "my-server")
>> (timezone "America/New_York")
>> (locale "en_US.UTF-8")
>> ;; This goofy code will generate the grub.cfg
>> ;; without installing the grub bootloader on disk.
>> (bootloader (bootloader-configuration
>> (bootloader
>> (bootloader
>> (inherit grub-bootloader)
>> (installer #~(const #t))))))
>> (file-systems (cons (file-system
>> (device "/dev/sda")
>> (mount-point "/")
>> (type "ext4"))
>> %base-file-systems))
>>
>> (initrd-modules (cons "virtio_scsi" ; Needed to find the disk
>> %base-initrd-modules))
>>
>> (users (cons (user-account
>> (name "janedoe")
>> (group "users")
>> ;; Adding the account to the "wheel" group
>> ;; makes it a sudoer.
>> (supplementary-groups '("wheel"))
>> (home-directory "/home/janedoe"))
>> %base-user-accounts))
>>
>> (packages (cons* nss-certs ;for HTTPS access
>> openssh-sans-x
>> %base-packages))
>>
>> (services (cons*
>> (service dhcp-client-service-type)
>> (service openssh-service-type
>> (openssh-configuration
>> (openssh openssh-sans-x)
>> (password-authentication? #f)
>> (authorized-keys
>> `(("janedoe" ,(local-file "janedoe_rsa.pub"))
>> ;; Is this a good idea? Well if you don't add it
>> ;; you have to manually set your user's password
>> ;; via the glish console...
>> ("root" ,(local-file "janedoe_rsa.pub"))))))
>> %base-services)))
>> #+END_SRC
>>
>> - Replace the following fields in the above configuration:
>> - (host-name "my-server") ; replace with your server name
>> - (name "janedoe") ; replace with your username
>> - ("janedoe" ,(local-file "janedoe_rsa.pub")) ; here too
>> - Note the same above for root, which I don't feel great about, but
>> otherwise you'll need to log in via the linode "glish" console to
>> log in as root and set the user's initial password before you can
>> start using sudo (is there another way around this?)
>>
>> - Save your ssh public key (~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub) as
>> <your-username-here>_rsa.pub or whatever in the same directory
>>
>> - Mount the guix drive:
>> $ mkdir /mnt/guix
>> $ mount /dev/sdc /mnt/guix
>>
>> - Due to the way we set things up above, we don't install Grub
>> completely, just our grub configuration file. So we need to copy
>> over some of the other Grub stuff that's already there:
>> $ mkdir -p /mnt/guix/boot/grub
>> $ cp -r /boot/grub/* /mnt/guix/boot/grub/
>>
>> - Now initialize the Guix installation:
>> $ guix system init guix-config.scm /mnt/guix
>>
>> - Ok, power it down!
>> - Now from the linode console, select boot and select "Guix"
>>
>> - Once it boots, you should be able to log in via ssh! (The server
>> config will have changed though.)
>>
>> - Be sure to set your password and root's password.
>>
>> - Horray! At this point you can shut down the server, delete the
>> Debian disk, and resize the Guix to the rest of the size.
>> Congratulations!
>>
>> BTW, if you save it as a disk image right at this point, you'll have an
>> easy time spinning up new Guix images!
>>
>> Let me know if this guide helps you!
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* Re: Installing Guix on Linode: a how-to
2020-07-11 1:15 ` jbranso
@ 2020-07-21 20:44 ` Christopher Lemmer Webber
0 siblings, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Christopher Lemmer Webber @ 2020-07-21 20:44 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: jbranso; +Cc: help-guix
Oh horray.. I didn't see this before my last reply ;)
jbranso@dismail.de writes:
> Ok I sent it to guix-patches.
>
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-patches/2020-07/msg00294.html
>
> July 10, 2020 6:17 PM, jbranso@dismail.de wrote:
>
>> I will volunteer to add this to the guix cookbook. If I don't send a patch in a week or so, then
>> that means I got lazy and decided not to do it.
>>
>> July 8, 2020 7:57 PM, "Gary Johnson" <lambdatronic@disroot.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Can someone add this tutorial to the Guix Cookbook? I've been wondering
>>> about how to do this for some time now, and it would be great to have it
>>> saved somewhere obvious like that for future reference.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Gary
>>>
>>> Christopher Lemmer Webber <cwebber@dustycloud.org> writes:
>>>
>>>> Hi! I finally got Guix running on Linode! I'm excited about it!
>>>> Here's the process (thanks to jackhill on freenode for helping me figure
>>>> out all the stuff involving the bootloader!). It's very bullet-point'y,
>>>> but here's the steps I took:
>>>>
>>>> - Start with a Debian (or whatever) server. Be sure to add your ssh
>>>> key for easy login. We'll be using the default distro as a way to
>>>> bootstrap Guix.
>>>> - Power it down.
>>>> - In the Disks/Configurations tab, resize the Debian disk to be
>>>> smaller, maybe 30GB or something.
>>>> - "Add a disk", with the following:
>>>> - Label: "Guix"
>>>> - Filesystem: ext4
>>>> - Set it to the remaining size
>>>> - Next to the "configuration" that comes with the default image,
>>>> press "..." and select "Edit", then on that menu add to
>>>> /dev/sdc the "Guix" label
>>>> - Now "Add a Configuration", with the following:
>>>> - Label: Guix
>>>> - VM Mode: Paravirtualization (the default?? don't know if this matters)
>>>> - Kernel: Grub 2 (it's at the bottom! This step is *IMPORTANT*)
>>>> - Block device assignment:
>>>> - /dev/sda: Guix
>>>> - /dev/sdb: swap
>>>> - Root device: /dev/sda
>>>> - Turn off all the filesystem/boot helpers
>>>> - Now power it back up, picking the Debian configuration
>>>> - Once it's booted up, ssh root@<your-server-ip-here>
>>>> - Run the "install guix form binary installer" steps:
>>>> - $ sudo apt-get install gpg
>>>> - $ wget https://sv.gnu.org/people/viewgpg.php?user_id=15145 -qO - | gpg --import -
>>>> - $ wget https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/plain/etc/guix-install.sh
>>>> - $ chmod +x guix-install.sh
>>>> - $ ./guix-install.sh
>>>> - $ guix pull
>>>>
>>>> - Now it's time to write out a config for the server. The key stuff is
>>>> below, save as guix-config.scm:
>>>>
>>>> #+BEGIN_SRC scheme
>>>> (use-modules (gnu)
>>>> (guix modules))
>>>> (use-service-modules networking
>>>> ssh)
>>>> (use-package-modules admin
>>>> certs
>>>> package-management
>>>> ssh
>>>> tls)
>>>>
>>>> (operating-system
>>>> (host-name "my-server")
>>>> (timezone "America/New_York")
>>>> (locale "en_US.UTF-8")
>>>> ;; This goofy code will generate the grub.cfg
>>>> ;; without installing the grub bootloader on disk.
>>>> (bootloader (bootloader-configuration
>>>> (bootloader
>>>> (bootloader
>>>> (inherit grub-bootloader)
>>>> (installer #~(const #t))))))
>>>> (file-systems (cons (file-system
>>>> (device "/dev/sda")
>>>> (mount-point "/")
>>>> (type "ext4"))
>>>> %base-file-systems))
>>>>
>>>> (initrd-modules (cons "virtio_scsi" ; Needed to find the disk
>>>> %base-initrd-modules))
>>>>
>>>> (users (cons (user-account
>>>> (name "janedoe")
>>>> (group "users")
>>>> ;; Adding the account to the "wheel" group
>>>> ;; makes it a sudoer.
>>>> (supplementary-groups '("wheel"))
>>>> (home-directory "/home/janedoe"))
>>>> %base-user-accounts))
>>>>
>>>> (packages (cons* nss-certs ;for HTTPS access
>>>> openssh-sans-x
>>>> %base-packages))
>>>>
>>>> (services (cons*
>>>> (service dhcp-client-service-type)
>>>> (service openssh-service-type
>>>> (openssh-configuration
>>>> (openssh openssh-sans-x)
>>>> (password-authentication? #f)
>>>> (authorized-keys
>>>> `(("janedoe" ,(local-file "janedoe_rsa.pub"))
>>>> ;; Is this a good idea? Well if you don't add it
>>>> ;; you have to manually set your user's password
>>>> ;; via the glish console...
>>>> ("root" ,(local-file "janedoe_rsa.pub"))))))
>>>> %base-services)))
>>>> #+END_SRC
>>>>
>>>> - Replace the following fields in the above configuration:
>>>> - (host-name "my-server") ; replace with your server name
>>>> - (name "janedoe") ; replace with your username
>>>> - ("janedoe" ,(local-file "janedoe_rsa.pub")) ; here too
>>>> - Note the same above for root, which I don't feel great about, but
>>>> otherwise you'll need to log in via the linode "glish" console to
>>>> log in as root and set the user's initial password before you can
>>>> start using sudo (is there another way around this?)
>>>>
>>>> - Save your ssh public key (~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub) as
>>>> <your-username-here>_rsa.pub or whatever in the same directory
>>>>
>>>> - Mount the guix drive:
>>>> $ mkdir /mnt/guix
>>>> $ mount /dev/sdc /mnt/guix
>>>>
>>>> - Due to the way we set things up above, we don't install Grub
>>>> completely, just our grub configuration file. So we need to copy
>>>> over some of the other Grub stuff that's already there:
>>>> $ mkdir -p /mnt/guix/boot/grub
>>>> $ cp -r /boot/grub/* /mnt/guix/boot/grub/
>>>>
>>>> - Now initialize the Guix installation:
>>>> $ guix system init guix-config.scm /mnt/guix
>>>>
>>>> - Ok, power it down!
>>>> - Now from the linode console, select boot and select "Guix"
>>>>
>>>> - Once it boots, you should be able to log in via ssh! (The server
>>>> config will have changed though.)
>>>>
>>>> - Be sure to set your password and root's password.
>>>>
>>>> - Horray! At this point you can shut down the server, delete the
>>>> Debian disk, and resize the Guix to the rest of the size.
>>>> Congratulations!
>>>>
>>>> BTW, if you save it as a disk image right at this point, you'll have an
>>>> easy time spinning up new Guix images!
>>>>
>>>> Let me know if this guide helps you!
>>>
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