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So, with Nix (and probably Guix), one can configure the live CD the same way they'd configure a real installation Hm I don't get what this means... Is there a

by chubot 6y ago

So, with Nix (and probably Guix), one can configure the live CD the same way they'd configure a real installation Hm I don't get what this means... Is there a demo or documentation somewhere? I have rebuilt a Debian chroot inside Debian (which I think is pretty much the same process as building an ISO). It's a big shell script that downloads a more-or-less fixed list of .deb files, installs them, and does some fixups.

Ericson2314 6y ago
See https://nixos.wiki/wiki/Creating_a_NixOS_live_CD https://nixos.wiki/wiki/Creating_a_NixOS_live_CD for a little flavor The > -I nixos-config=iso.nix in > nix-build '<nixpkgs/nixos>' -A config.system.build.isoImage -I nixos-config=iso.nix is basically saying "use this file instead of my regular `/etc/nixos/configuration.nix` entry point". The format of the two however is the same.
ryukafalz 6y ago
I run Guix System on my laptop. To change my system configuration (think installed packages, installed services, users, filesystem mounts, etc) I would run: 'guix system reconfigure ~/guix/system.scm' ...after editing that system config file. To build an ISO image from the same configuration, I would run: 'guix system disk-image ~/guix/system.scm' ...which would build a bootable ISO image of the same configured system. (Obviously I'd need to change things like the filesystem mounts to do this as they're specific to my laptop; it's possible to make more generic configs and inherit them per-machine but I only have one so haven't bothered yet.) Here's the config for my laptop: https://github.com/jfrederickson/dotfiles/blob/master/guix/guix/system.scm https://github.com/jfrederickson/dotfiles/blob/master/guix/g...