From: Christopher Allan Webber <cwebber@dustycloud.org>
To: Chris Marusich <cmmarusich@gmail.com>
Cc: help-guix <help-guix@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Hosting a GuixSD server on commodity hosting platforms, a journey
Date: Thu, 01 Dec 2016 10:52:18 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87lgvzzj5p.fsf@dustycloud.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87a8cg7weq.fsf@gmail.com>
Chris Marusich writes:
> Hi,
>
> Reading Chris' report, I was inspired to try the same thing on EC2. I
> don't know much about Linode or Rackspace, but I do know EC2. I'm happy
> to report that I was successfully in creating a GuixSD EC2 instance.
>
> Here's what I did. Essentially, all I wanted to do was run "guix system
> init" on the root device of an EC2 instance. I accomplished that by
> running "guix system init" on a loopback device (on my laptop), copying
> the file which backed the loopback device onto an EC2 instance, writing
> the file to an EBS volume attached to the instance, and then replacing
> the EC2 instance's root EBS volume with the newly written EBS volume.
Wow, great! Thank you for trying it, and documenting it :)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-12-01 16:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-11-29 19:59 Hosting a GuixSD server on commodity hosting platforms, a journey Christopher Allan Webber
2016-11-30 4:50 ` Christopher Allan Webber
2016-11-30 11:38 ` ng0
2016-11-30 18:57 ` Christopher Allan Webber
2016-11-30 22:00 ` ng0
2016-11-30 15:08 ` Marius Bakke
2016-11-30 18:18 ` Christopher Allan Webber
2016-11-30 16:41 ` Chris Marusich
2016-12-01 16:52 ` Christopher Allan Webber [this message]
2016-12-02 4:06 ` Christopher Allan Webber
2016-12-02 6:22 ` Chris Marusich
2016-12-02 17:39 ` Christopher Allan Webber
2016-12-02 19:51 ` Christopher Baines
2016-12-02 23:20 ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
2016-12-03 19:13 ` Christopher Allan Webber
2016-12-03 18:24 ` Christopher Allan Webber
2016-12-02 20:53 ` Christopher Allan Webber
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