Re: [Nix-dev] bootstrap of NixOS

2013-12-26 Thread Vladimír Čunát
On 12/23/2013 06:47 PM, Petr Pudlák wrote: I'm looking for something that could be automated. Some kind of a self-contained script that automatically prepares a minimal NixOS installation. Eventually I'd like to create OS installation scripts [1] for Ganeti cluster management software [2]. The

Re: [Nix-dev] bootstrap of NixOS

2013-12-26 Thread Patrick Wheeler
If you are trying to learn the operating system specific features then you will need to instal nixos, however you can learn about nixpkgs with out installing the nixos operating system. The nixpkgs package system installs on ubuntu and most other distributions and operates cleanly and orthogonally

Re: [Nix-dev] bootstrap of NixOS

2013-12-23 Thread Thomas Bereknyei
Would a LiveCD work for you? There a some available at http://nixos.org/nixos/download.html as well as some virtualbox appliances. On Sat, Dec 21, 2013 at 3:39 PM, Petr Pudlák wrote: > Hi, > > I'd like start to learn and experiment with NixOS, in a virtualized > environment. Is there some tool li