[Nix-dev] Question about chroot & nixos-install

[Sander]

Peter Simons wrote (ao):
>  > I think installing NixOS into a mountpoint from another OS (where
>  > just nixpkgs available) is a common situation. Anyone to present a
>  > workable procedure?
> 
> https://nixos.org/wiki/How_to_install_NixOS_from_Linux describes how
> to do that using a Live-CD ISO.

For some values of workable. When I first stumbled on these instructions
I was kinda surprised. I appreciate NixOS is not for Aunt Tilly, but
fiddle with mounting ISO images and unpacking squashfs' just to
install a Linux OS anno 2016?

I guess I'm spoiled by Debian's [1]multistrap, which installs Debian in
a directory in 30 seconds by just running 'multistrap -f newos.conf'

	Sander

1. https://wiki.debian.org/Multistrap