Another beginners question ...
I am confused: The NixOS boot menu shows a list of 17 configurations. I
want to remove some of them in order to free some space on the NixOS
partition. I try
$ sudo nix-env --list-generations
12 2015-08-30 11:20:39
19 2015-12-22 11:50:11
20
I am still learning NixOS ... I want to alter /etc/inputrc this way:
\e[5~: beginning-of-history
\e[6~: end-of-history
---
\e[5~: history-search-backward
\e[6~: history-search-forward
but inputrc is a symlink to nix-store and I guess that it is not a good
idea to alter that one, but
On Sat, 29 Aug 2015, 宋文武 wrote:
Indeed, I think nixos-install should create the grub.cfg without touch the
MBR when you set 'boot.loader.grub.device' to nodev.
You need modify your main grub.cfg (the Ubuntu one) to add a
NixOS menuentry with 'chainloader' or 'configfile'.
Ok, I succeeded
On Sun, 30 Aug 2015, Nicolas Pierron wrote:
On Sun, Aug 30, 2015 at 10:19 AM, Henning Thielemann
lemm...@henning-thielemann.de wrote:
Ok, I succeeded with the configfile approach. However I have to run
nixos-install twice in order to eventually get a grub.cfg. I have in
/etc/nixos
On Fri, 28 Aug 2015, Peter Simons wrote:
You have to do two things to enlist yourself as a maintainer:
- Add your e-mail address to [1].
- Add your maintainer id to [2] and list all the packages you'd like to
subscribe to.
I like to use that service but I have about 100 packages at
On Thu, 27 Aug 2015, 宋文武 wrote:
I think you can:
install NixOS's GRUB to its boot partitation, then add a 'chainloader'
menu entry to your main GRUB (installed into MBR by Ubuntu).
I did this with btrfs (ext4 did't work for me):
boot.loader.grub.device = /dev/sdaX;
(sdaX is the boot or
I like to install NixOS it to an individual partition on my machine. I
used the graphical installation DVD and the first problem I got is that
the touchpad of my machine is ignored. Unfortunately I do not know how to
control KDE/plasma with keys. An external USB mouse solved that problem
for
