Re: [Nix-dev] Can't create btrfs when installing nixos

2012-12-11 Thread LluĂ­s Batlle i Rossell
On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 03:50:47PM +0100, Mathijs Kwik wrote: > Hi Bill, > > In an amazing coincidence, I ran into the same issue today (mkfs.btrfs > from livecd). > This is a bug upstream, but you can work around it by: > > mkdir -p /mnt-root/nix-store.squashfs > > After that, it will work. > T

Re: [Nix-dev] Can't create btrfs when installing nixos

2012-12-11 Thread Mathijs Kwik
Hi Bill, In an amazing coincidence, I ran into the same issue today (mkfs.btrfs from livecd). This is a bug upstream, but you can work around it by: mkdir -p /mnt-root/nix-store.squashfs After that, it will work. The issue is that that directory is mentioned in /proc/mounts but doesn't exist (it

[Nix-dev] Can't create btrfs when installing nixos

2012-12-11 Thread Bill Trost
Hi, all, I just installed nixos-minimal-0.1pre4011_13617b8-28d1785-i686-linux.iso on an old ASUS netbook this weekend. I'm impressed by how smoothly it went. One little hiccup, though, is that mkfs.btrfs wouldn't work -- it gave me an error like "can't determine mount status of /dev/sda3". On a b