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Vaci
2 years agoLevel 1
NixOS support
I note that NixOS was recently retired from the list of supported operating systems. What was the reason for dropping NixOS? I'm curious as to whether there are technical limitations that make the OS...
evielmetti
2 years agoEquinix Employee
Vaci - we enable booting a lot of operating systems over Custom iPXE as Jantzen notes, and there's a helpful front end to that system using netboot.xyz . There's docs at https://deploy.equinix.com/developers/docs/metal/operating-systems/custom-ipxe/#using-netbootxyz-example that should line up with the NixOS docs at https://nixos.wiki/wiki/Netboot .
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