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

[Thomas Hunger]

Hi Jookia,

Do you have your guide somewhere public? Maybe on github, pastebin, a blog
or so?

It'd be a shame to lose this information!

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On 29 April 2015 at 12:09, Joachim Schiele <js at lastlog.de> wrote:

> On 29.04.2015 04:25, Jookia wrote:
> > 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.
>
> oh nice, which platform?
>
> > 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.
>
> you could also write docbook syntax offline and then upload your stuff
> using a git-pull request. a good place would probably be the nixos
> documentation.
>
>
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