a super low end upcloud vm that i got

VERY VERY IMPORTANT NOTES:

this was hell to setup, mostly because i wasn't sure if i could modprobe zram. but you can in fact do it and turn a 1gb of ram system into something more usable that let's you actually build the damn thing

so three very important things

USE ZRAM ON THE INSTALLER run this

modprobe zram
echo zstd >/sys/block/zram0/comp_algorithm
echo "2G" >/sys/block/zram0/disksize
mkswap /dev/zram0
swapon --priority 100 /dev/zram0

and when building it with nixos-anywhere be sure to use the --no-diskos-deps flag!!!

nix run github:nix-community/nixos-anywhere -- --no-disko-deps --flake <flake_location>#<system> --target-host root@<ip_address>

thank you @nocab.lol for helping me quite a lot with the disko part!!

I FUCKING LOVE ZRAM