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The use of Nix 2.0 significantly simplifies the installer, since we can just pass a different store URI (--store /mnt) - it's no longer needed to set up a chroot environment for the build, and to bootstrap Nix into the chroot. Also, commands that need to run in the installation (namely boot loader installation and setting a root password) are now executed using nixos-enter. This also removes the need for nixos-prepare-root since any required initialisation is done by Nix or by the activation script. |
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| administration | ||
| configuration | ||
| development | ||
| installation | ||
| release-notes | ||
| default.nix | ||
| man-configuration.xml | ||
| man-nixos-build-vms.xml | ||
| man-nixos-enter.xml | ||
| man-nixos-generate-config.xml | ||
| man-nixos-install.xml | ||
| man-nixos-option.xml | ||
| man-nixos-rebuild.xml | ||
| man-nixos-version.xml | ||
| man-pages.xml | ||
| manual.xml | ||
| options-to-docbook.xsl | ||
| README | ||
| style.css | ||
To build the manual, you need Nix installed on your system (no need
for NixOS). To install Nix, follow the instructions at
https://nixos.org/nix/download.html
When you have Nix on your system, in the root directory of the project
(i.e., `nixpkgs`), run:
nix-build nixos/release.nix -A manual.x86_64-linux
When this command successfully finishes, it will tell you where the
manual got generated.