Skip to content
New issue

Have a question about this project? Sign up for a free GitHub account to open an issue and contact its maintainers and the community.

By clicking “Sign up for GitHub”, you agree to our terms of service and privacy statement. We’ll occasionally send you account related emails.

Already on GitHub? Sign in to your account

Offline installation (fixes VPN problem) #205

Open
DavHau opened this issue Sep 7, 2023 · 1 comment
Open

Offline installation (fixes VPN problem) #205

DavHau opened this issue Sep 7, 2023 · 1 comment
Labels
enhancement New feature or request

Comments

@DavHau
Copy link
Member

DavHau commented Sep 7, 2023

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
It is currently not possible to use nixos-anywhere on hosts which run a software based VPN in order to be reachable, as that software will be killed by the kexec installer.

see #204

Describe the solution you'd like

Once the kexec installer is booted/executed, don't require the build host to re-connect, instead just execute the installation independently from the build host. Once the installation is finalized, the connection will be back due to the correctly setup nixos system.

Describe alternatives you've considered

Additional context

@DavHau DavHau added the enhancement New feature or request label Sep 7, 2023
@Mic92
Copy link
Member

Mic92 commented Oct 14, 2023

Question is where it would the closures to install from? Also this way of installing seems a bit brittle, if you get the installation wrong than there is no way to recover from it.
Maybe it would be better to build a custom kexec image that is also able to connect from a VPN?

Sign up for free to join this conversation on GitHub. Already have an account? Sign in to comment
Labels
enhancement New feature or request
Projects
None yet
Development

No branches or pull requests

2 participants