[Nix-dev] Where would I put the bootstrapping guide?

Jookia 166291 at gmail.com
Wed Apr 29 04:25:52 CEST 2015


Hello!

Recently I've bootstrapped NixOS on to a new ARM platform from an 
existing Debian install on the same platform. I figured this is useful 
knowledge so I've written up some documentation which I'm in the process 
of convert to Docbook. It's kind of a tutorial but expects users to 
modify commands.

The guide includes how to install Nix, the NixOS installer and finally 
NixOS on a system such as Debian. It's three sections long and intended 
for development and porting NixOS to new platforms.

I originally wrote it for inclusion in the Wiki but I'm barred from it 
as I use Tor, so I'm beginning to wonder if there's a place for it in 
the official documentation around the installation section. The 
obviously place would be in the installer section but it focuses on 
using a CD.

Any suggestions? I'd really love to make it easier to install NixOS when 
there isn't already an installer image.

Jookia.


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