I used something like this to generate an ISO image that would self-install: http://paste.ofcode.org/K9Haex6MiBxygqJDFXkSL7
On Sat, Aug 17, 2013 at 3:22 PM, Tim Barbour <t...@categorical.net> wrote: > I would like to be able to boot from nixos installation media, then do > automated partitioning, LVM setup and filesystem creation, then let nixops > do > the rest. What is the best way to automate partitioning, LVM setup and > filesystem creation ? I wrote a shell script to do this (just for one > disk, so > far) using parted etc., but it looks ugly, and I wonder if it would be > better > done using nix. > > Does nix / nixos provide any existing mechanisms for doing this ? > > I am an experienced functional programmer (Haskell, not nix), but I don't > understand how to do IO in nix. Perhaps I should be modelling the disk > setup > as the building of some derivations, but such derivations would not > produce a > result in the nix store. If I made them produce a result in the store, > then > the disk setup would be a side-effect, and not referentially transparent. I > get the feeling that this is outside the scope of nix. > > Tim > --- > GPG public key available at: > http://phasechangeit.com/~trb/gpg-key or > http://subkeys.pgp.net:11371 > _______________________________________________ > nix-dev mailing list > nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl > http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev >
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