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Ok, here is my problem... I’ve dabbled in NixOS, I have it installed in a second desktop under my desk, and occasionally use it for Linux tasks... Most of my

Ok, here is my problem... I’ve dabbled in NixOS, I have it installed in a second desktop under my desk, and occasionally use it for Linux tasks... Most of my Linux projects though have been doing stuff on raspberry pi or pine phone, or any of these sorts of little machines, where I’d really love to run Nix... the problem is every time I start digging, they seem to require already a lot of Nix experience, and expecting that I’m already on a nix machine to create and burn images, etc... But where is like the image I can just download and burn from Windows to an sdcard, or at least really simple instructions to get that image from an nix machine?

GolDDranks 5y ago
The situation has been rapidly improving these weeks, after the release of NixOS 21.05. Here’s a working setup: https://nix.dev/tutorials/installing-nixos-on-a-raspberry-pi https://nix.dev/tutorials/installing-nixos-on-a-raspberry-pi
- Arelius 5y ago
  awesome, I'm going to give this a try... One thing I notice, is this url is just given, without much context: `https://hydra.nixos.org/build/142828023/download/1/nixos-sd-image-21.05pre288297.8eed0e20953-aarch64-linux.img.zst https://hydra.nixos.org/build/142828023/download/1/nixos-sd-...` But I (think I) know enough about nix to know this is an image generated by the build system, and in theory I should be able to browse hydra, to find other images that I could try to burn, I think some info about where that image came from would be super helpful in understanding nix's build system.