[Nix-dev] Merry X-mas to Nix!

[Marc Weber]

On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 06:41:17PM +0100, Pjotr Prins wrote:
> Someone who tried Nix from the Linux.com article:
> 
> I downloaded and run nixos iso in VirtualBox.. After running nix-env -qa firefox, I get an error saying:
> 
> error: while evaluating the attribute 'config' at '/etc/nixos/nixos/system/system.nix', line 18
> while evaluating the function at '/etc/nixos/nixpkgs/pkgs/lib/default.nix', line 448:
> ..
> ..
> getting status of '/etc/nixos/configuration.nix': No such file or directory

?? Wow.

I guess you know what /etc/nixos/configuration.nix is about?
It does contain the configuration of the system.
I've never tried running nix-env -i from the booted cd so I don't know
wether it's even supported?

The default way to install nixos is mounting the target partition on
/mnt and create configuration.nix on the mount point
(/mnt/nixos/configuration.nix).
But this is all described here
http://nixos.org/releases/nixos/unstable/manual/ (Or on ctrl alt F10 or so).

Have I missed the point completely?

Marc Weber