Cycle OS build scripts

Cycle's OS is based on NixOS, a linux distribution with a purely functional package manager.

These scripts build .box images that can be used by vagrant, and ISO images that can be installed on bare metal.

See CycleSDK for the complete development environment (which makes use of the images generated here).

Building the images

First install packer and virtualbox

Then:

packer build cycle64-template.json

The .box image is now ready to go. Install it into Vagrant via:

vagrant box add cycle64 cycle64-virtualbox.box

Updating the public box image

s3put is handy command line wrapper for copying files to Amazon S3, it's part of the boto library.

Install boto:

pip install boto

Push the .box image to S3 via s3put

s3put -a $AWS_ID -s $AWS_KEY -b oxdi -g public-read --prefix `pwd` cycle64-virtualbox.box

The box will then be available at http://amazonaws.com/oxdi/cycle64-virtualbox.box