| 11 Mar 2026 |
 Puna | you can try uhhhh | 21:48:36 |
 Stas | let me give it some time | 21:49:38 |
| Puna | if the usb has an led on it and it keeps blinking, then it's prolly still loading | 21:52:38 |
| Stas | none of them do nowadays :D | 21:55:22 |
| Stas | i will just let it simmer for a while | 21:55:30 |
| Stas | you were totally right | 21:57:08 |
| Stas | :D | 21:57:09 |
| Stas | just takes ages | 21:57:12 |
| Puna | booting an installed system is abit faster, i promise 🙂↕️ | 21:59:25 |
| Puna | puna@Yubel ~> systemd-analyze
Startup finished in 17.503s (kernel) + 39.642s (userspace) = 57.146s
not perfectly accurate, but gives a rough idea
| 22:01:28 |
| Puna | * puna@Yubel ~> systemd-analyze
Startup finished in 17.503s (kernel) + 39.642s (userspace) = 57.146s
not perfectly accurate, but gives a rough idea maybe
| 22:01:40 |
| Stas | i was thinking of installing nvme into a pcie slot. Won't be usable for boot partition, but should work otherwise | 22:06:39 |
| Stas | but that later :D | 22:06:44 |
| Stas | mine still has the stock hdd | 22:07:03 |
| Puna | btw, just to tamper expectations: i don't think you can actually install nixos yet even if you build an ISO. at the very least, there's prolly some stuff missing in the boot.loader.grub module to handle the different grub package + platform-specific stuff. haven't tried going past booting the installer yet cus i only have a single disk available rn, and i didn't wanna risk losing my working debian installation. | 22:18:10 |
| Puna | * btw, just to temper expectations: i don't think you can actually install nixos yet even if you build an ISO. at the very least, there's prolly some stuff missing in the boot.loader.grub module to handle the different grub package + platform-specific stuff. haven't tried going past booting the installer yet cus i only have a single disk available rn, and i didn't wanna risk losing my working debian installation. | 22:19:19 |
| 12 Mar 2026 |
| Stas | Sure! I am not expecting smooth sailing. Managed to finish and boot minimal Sid yesterday and went to sleep | 06:10:44 |
| Stas | Will start the builds today and see where it takes me. 99% will add storage | 06:11:23 |
| Stas | Managed to cross compile nix and install it on the Debian sid G5 | 12:59:32 |
| Stas | Puna, I have started a build from here: https://github.com/OPNA2608/nixpkgs/commit/848a9e2f68e726b3727d10e759074eae3c6414e6 | 13:10:43 |
| Stas | not sure if it is still current | 13:10:52 |
| Puna | https://github.com/OPNA2608/nixpkgs/tree/wip/ppc64-installer | 13:11:45 |
| Puna | trying to always push my last tested states with all patches to that branch | 13:12:15 |
| Stas | thanks! Will do that | 13:13:22 |
| Stas | found a 1T barracuda, will screw it in too | 13:28:05 |
| Stas | as the poor old Samsung sounds too busy :D | 13:28:53 |
| Stas | I can also get iSCSI to it over both of the 1G ethernets. I have a TGT running with 2 modern HDDs in stripe | 13:29:49 |
| Stas | might be faster than a single local 1T HDD | 13:29:58 |
| Puna | K900: anything that can be done to get the mesa opencl thing closer to a merge? been ~ a month
https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/456839 | 14:04:29 |
 K900 | Honestly | 14:06:58 |
