configuration. No virtual disk image is generated; the VM shares a
Nix store with the host. This makes it very fast to build new VMs.
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$ nixos-hardware-scan > /etc/nixos/hardware.nix
and import the hardware.nix module in /etc/nixos/configuration.nix.
That way you can easily rescan for new hardware.
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exists. $NIXPKGS needs to be set, otherwise NixOS can't find
Nixpkgs (because in the chroot it's in /mnt/etc/nixos/nixpkgs).
Also clear LANG to shut up Perl warnings about the locale.
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This is because fsck.ext3 takes several minutes to recover the
journal, whereas the ext3 implementation in the kernel only takes a
few seconds. I'd love to know why this is the case...
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an X server and KDE 4. Thanks to squashfs it's only 466 MiB large.
`installation-cd-small.nix' builds the original, text-only
installation CD.
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size of the i686-linux ISO image from 463 MiB to 147 MiB. Hopefully
it also speeds up installation due to reduced seek time and larger
block sizes, but I haven't tested that yet (on real hardware).
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rescue-dvd.nix (not tested though), i.e. it has all its extra
packages and includes the build-time dependencies.
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iso-image.nix contains the minimal stuff necessary to build a
bootable ISO image containing the given configuration. The idea is
that this can be customised by providing additional modules, e.g. to
add extra packages to the image.
The ISO image is exported in the configuration attribute
system.build.isoImage. So it can be built as follows:
$ nix-build lib/eval-config.nix \
--arg configuration 'import ./modules/installer/cd-dvd/iso-image.nix' \
-A config.system.build.isoImage
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package) can be overriden by setting environment.systemPackages in
/etc/nixos/configuration.nix: it shouldn't be special-cased.
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need some devices. In particular this fixes the "Cannot open
virtual console 7" errors in VirtualBox. (There's nothing special
about VirtualBox, but the different timing makes it more likely to
trigger this bug.)
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previously failed to resolve the NTP server hostnames in its config
file, it will happily sit in a loop forever doing nothing.
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start script. It's probably not necessary, but more importantly, it
can hang forever if the network is down. (Actually it will sit in a
loop waiting for UDP packets that will never arrive.) This causes
the NixOS reboot to hang, since Upstart can't kill jobs stuck in
their start script.
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enabled as a session type. Since I'm lazy, provide it
unconditionally. Also have it include "common-console" to set
device ownership when logging in.
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