> I'm aiming for a much simpler setup: mount your global nix store > (which is shared with other hosts) in your new empty root, then > either run a bootstrap script that generates /boot, or manually > place the boot-symlinks there. After that it should be possible to > just boot into an identical system as before. It looks you don't know the internals of nixos well yet. /boot is generated by any of the nixos-install activation or boot phases. So if you "script that" you duplicate work - why? Because each time you update nixos using nixos-rebuild new kernels have to be copied to /boot depending on your configuration options - and that has already been implemented.
> That said, I'd be happy to check out your code and see if I can work > from it instead of nixos-install. Is your code publicly available Yes - I push to gitorious. However I'd prefer you sending me your ssh pub key so that you can clone from my SSH account. http://mawercer.de/~nix/ However in your case http://mawercer.de/~marc/minimal-install-archive.patch should be enough if you're lucky. You can contact me on irc (#nixos) anytime. Marc Weber _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
