This is the master branch of nixpkgs, initially pulled from commit 8debf2f9a63d54ae4f28994290437ba54c681c7b
The intent of this repo is to be merged onto nixpkgs master. This will also be of help for https://git.suyu.dev/BoomMicrophone/suyu-nix-test
which I will need in order for development (it will also be helpful to know what to do for setting up the environment for the master server. Currently I am focusing on this so I can actually see what is still missing)
This repo will be removed once the PR to the nixpkgs github goes through
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*** Building the installation CD *** - Make sure that you have a very recent Nix. - Pull from the Nixpkgs channel to speed up building. - Check out https://svn.cs.uu.nl:12443/repos/trace/nixos/trunk/. - make a symbolic link called "pkgs" to the location of Nixpkgs - Build the ISO image: $ nix-build instances/rescue-cd.nix -A rescueCD This gives you an image in result/iso/nixos.iso. - Burn the ISO image or attach it to a CD-ROM drive in VMware. *** Installation *** - Boot from the CD. - The CD contains a pretty complete NixOS installation. When it's finished booting, it should have detected most of your hardware and brought up networking (check ifconfig). Networking is necessary for the installer. It's best if you have a DHCP server on your network. Otherwise configure manually. - Login as "root", empty password. - The NixOS installer doesn't do any partitioning or formatting yet, so you need to that yourself. Use "fdisk" and "e2fsck". - Unpack the NixOS and Nixpkgs sources: $ tar xf /nixos.tar.bz2 $ tar xf /nixpkgs.tar.bz2 $ ln -s nixpkgs-*/pkgs . (TODO: do this automatically.) - The installation is declarative; you need to make a description of the configuration that is to be built and activated. The configuration is specified in a Nix expression. See instances/examples for example machine configurations. You can copy and edit one of those (e.g., instances/examples/basic.nix to my-config.nix). See configuration/options.nix for available configuration settings. The text editor "nano" is available. In particular you need to specify boot.rootDevice and boot.grubDevice for the devices where the OS and Grub are to be installed, respectively. - Do the installation: $ nixos-installer.sh /dev/TARGET . my-config.nix where TARGET matched boot.rootDevice in your configuration. (TODO: this should be extracted automatically.) - If everything went well: $ reboot You should now be able to boot into the installed NixOS. *** Troubleshooting *** To get a Stage 1 shell: - Add "debug1" to the kernel command line. To switch to maintenance mode: $ shutdown now To get out of maintenance mode: $ initctl emit startup