SLAM installation

Images

Boot images can be built from the SLAM images repo.

QEMU

Nix attr
images.installer.Qcow2
prebuilt image
files.informatics.coop/synit.qcow2

The image can be expanded using qemu-image (qemu-img resize -f qcow2 synit.qcow2 64G) and the file-system resized by selecting corresponding the option in the boot loader menu.

Real hardware

Nix attr
images.intallerImage
prebuilt image
files.informatics.coop/synit.img.zstd

The image can be copied to a USB stick and booted with using BIOS or UEFI.

# Fetch the image.
wget https://files.informatics.coop/synit.img.zstd

# Write the image to /dev/sdX.
zstd -d <synit.img.zstd | sudo dd of=/dev/sdX conv=fdatasync status=progress

Booting the “resize root file-system” option from the boot loader menu will expand the root file-system to fill any trailing unpartitioned storage.

VMX

Nix attr
images.vmxTarball
prebuilt image
files.informatics.coop/slam-x86_64.vmx.tar.bz2