Images

Mutable boot images are built from the installer branch of the the SLAM repo.

QEMU

Nix attr

installer.config.system.image.builds.diskImageQcow2

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

installer.config.system.image.builds.diskImageZstd

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.