On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 9:50 AM, Eelco Dolstra <[email protected]>
wrote:

> I don't think nixos-install is that complex. Almost all of the
> initialisation it
> does in the target file system is to make nix-build work in the chroot. The
> NixOS initialisation is done by the activation script.
>
> Check out "nixos-container create" - it does almost no initialisation of
> the
> container file system, since everything is done by the activation script
> during
> the first boot of the container.
>
>

What I find missing is *creation* of the actual partitions, file systems
etc. integrated into the system startup.
This can be accomplished as an idempotent initialization and also be turned
off by default (require boot flag).

Alexander
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