[Nix-dev] Problems installing NixOS with btrfs from a USB stick

[Alexei Robyn]

Hello,

If you're talking about the "can't determine mount status of /dev/..."
issue, this is a bug with mkfs.btrfs. See
http://lists.science.uu.nl/pipermail/nix-dev/2012-December/010237.html

- Alexei

On Sun, Apr 13, 2014, at 07:49 PM, Cillian de Róiste wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> On Sun, Apr 13, 2014 at 11:05 AM, Thomas Strobel <ts468 at 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
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