On Sun, Mar 30, 2014 at 11:01:35PM +0200, Ben Franksen wrote: > Hi Everyone
Hello fellow newbie, I just wanted to give you a heads up that I, as a fellow newbie, created a completely superfluous little helper script called nixin[1] which aggregates some common commands. It's probably better to learn the individual commands though but it might be nice as a quick reference. Any pull requests are welcome :) [1]: https://github.com/edwtjo/nixin/ > > I am new to NixOS (but not to Linux), just installed the stable (13.10) > version and have a number of questions/comments. > > (1) Installation with USB stick failed during the first reboot with "waiting > for /dev/sdb1 to appear.....". (Also, the 'boot form harddisk' entry in the > bootloader menu did not exist.) I could install fine after I burned the > image on a CD. It would be nice if installation from a USB stick could be > made to work. > > (2) It seems impossible to install NixOS w/o installing the boot loader. I > did not want to overwrite what's in my MBR because I have another system > (kubuntu) on the machine and did not want to loose my boot menu. I tried > installation to some partition but that also failed for various reasons. I > know, this is a general problem with grub2, not partcular to NixOS. Anyway, > after many failed attempts my solution was to create a btrfs on an unused > partition, adding a chainloader entry to my kubuntu-maintained boot menu. A > hint how to do that (in the NixOS manual or on the wiki) would be nice, I > guess experimental installation of NixOS side-by-side with an existing > system is common, considering the experimental status of NixOS. > > (3) I love the declarative approach to system configuration. However, for a > newcomer it is hard to find out how to configure his favorite packages. What > options are there and how can I set them? Is looking at the 'sources' (for > the package's nix expressions) the only way? Related question: I tried to > put pkgs.kdepim into environment.systemPackages, which failed for no > apparent reason. Then I stumbled (really, by accident) over a nix snippet > where it said pkgs.kde4.<some-kde-subpackage> and indeed adding the .kde4 > worked. How can I find out how packages are organised in the pkgs nix > expression? > > (4) How do I fix something if it is broken? Note I don't want to upgrade my > whole NixOS configuration to the unstable branch (as all the documentation > suggests), just make one or two fixes in certain packages (e.g. the nedit > package is currently broken, when starting the binary it crashes with some > X11 bad opcode error). I expected the nixpkgs repository to have a 'stable' > branch so I could check that out and work from there but such a branch seems > not to exist. How else can I replace/fix/change the nix expression for a > single package, leaving the rest of the system as is? > > Cheers > Ben > -- > "Make it so they have to reboot after every typo." -- Scott Adams > > > _______________________________________________ > nix-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
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