Hi! On Sun, Apr 13, 2014 at 11:05 AM, Thomas Strobel <ts...@cam.ac.uk> wrote: > Hi there, > > I was running into problems when trying to install NixOS with btrfs from > a USB stick. I downloaded the current .iso and used unetbootin to create > a bootable USB drive from it. > > Unfortunately, the resulting installation environment did not allow to > use mkfs.btrfs as it could not decide on the mounting status of my > partition. It seemed as if unetbootin prepared the system in a way that > prevented mkfs.btrfs from working. > > Did anyone else experience that problem? > > If so, then my question is if the .iso files could be changed in a way > that allows to prepare the USB stick with a simple dd-command, e.g. like > Debian or GRML ISOs do, and that keeps mkft.btrfs working?
You could try installing syslinux and using isohybrid to create a hybrid bootable image which you can dd onto a USB stick: isohybrid filename.iso http://www.syslinux.org/wiki/index.php/Doc/isolinux#HYBRID_CD-ROM.2FHARD_DISK_MODE I'm not sure if that will help with the btrfs issue, but it would be good to know if it worked. Good luck! Cillian _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev