* Michael Raskin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-05-20 15:27:11+0400] > 1. Booting into NixOS will give you little good anyway for now, as > there is no pppd in NixPkgs yet. Maybe I will try to add it soon as > there is demand, but then you'll have to test it (as you seem to be > the only one with PPPoE)
No problem for me. > 2. Current install CD requires Internet connection for installation > and also is generated in a way that lacks flexibility. The expression > that allows building a network-independent DVD (1.5 GB with sources > and a bit of X applications and all that live accessible) is > accessible (and should be usable for building it by Nix on Debian..), > but it is not yet made the official ISO expression. That's not an issue (at least until NixOS is widespread distro :), I just wanted to say that under such circumstances internet tools should be the priority. > If you are interested in experimenting from the beginning, you can > always chroot into NixOS and build a fresh installation medium. > > 3. /boot/grub/menu.lst should still be created by nixos-install, so > you can see both the kernel command line and initrd. You have > /boot/nixos-grub-config that provides shorter names for first attempts > to boot. Note that booting through LILO can cause minor glitch with > nixos-rebuild switch - it will always boot you into first global > system generation. > > 4. I'd probably - for now - boot Debian and then chroot into NixOS. > That is usable (I even did the same trick with coLinux (and a small > official tuned Debian image to handle its quirks)). At least until > pppd is working.. > > 5. Specify details of your disk layout. What FSes do you use? If Eelco > Dolstra is right, try checking out the latest tree and I did nixos-checkout before nixos-install, if you mean this. crematorium:~% sudo fdisk -l Disk /dev/hda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk identifier: 0x3c5991aa Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 * 1 1245 10000431 83 Linux /dev/hda2 2491 19457 136287427+ 5 Extended /dev/hda3 * 1246 2490 10000462+ 83 Linux /dev/hda5 2491 2739 2000061 82 Linux swap / Solaris /dev/hda6 3119 15567 99996561 83 Linux /dev/hda7 15568 19457 31246393+ 83 Linux Partition table entries are not in disk order crematorium:~% sudo tune2fs -l /dev/hda3 tune2fs 1.40.8 (13-Mar-2008) Filesystem volume name: <none> Last mounted on: <not available> Filesystem UUID: ad8a2f54-165b-4a4c-b640-26278051a97a Filesystem magic number: 0xEF53 Filesystem revision #: 1 (dynamic) Filesystem features: ext_attr resize_inode dir_index filetype sparse_super large_file Filesystem flags: signed_directory_hash Default mount options: (none) Filesystem state: clean Errors behavior: Continue Filesystem OS type: Linux Inode count: 625856 Block count: 2500115 Reserved block count: 125005 Free blocks: 2214839 Free inodes: 519797 First block: 0 Block size: 4096 Fragment size: 4096 Reserved GDT blocks: 610 Blocks per group: 32768 Fragments per group: 32768 Inodes per group: 8128 Inode blocks per group: 508 Filesystem created: Sun May 18 16:06:58 2008 Last mount time: Sun May 18 16:53:06 2008 Last write time: Sun May 18 17:48:14 2008 Mount count: 2 Maximum mount count: 28 Last checked: Sun May 18 16:06:58 2008 Check interval: 15552000 (6 months) Next check after: Fri Nov 14 15:06:58 2008 Reserved blocks uid: 0 (user root) Reserved blocks gid: 0 (group root) First inode: 11 Inode size: 256 Default directory hash: tea Directory Hash Seed: ddd8dae0-f8c3-4077-94e4-5e3949b6af85 > NIXOS_INSTALL_GRUB=1 nixos-rebuild switch > -- Roman I. Cheplyaka :: http://ro-che.info/ ...being in love is totally punk rock... _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.cs.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
