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I tried to install NixOS using the live cd last week in a Hyper-V VM, but it failed to get anywhere due to SquashFS errors. That seemed pretty low-level so I'm
by password4321 4y ago
I tried to install NixOS using the live cd last week in a Hyper-V VM, but it failed to get anywhere due to SquashFS errors.
That seemed pretty low-level so I'm putting it back on the back burner. User friendliness doesn't seem to be a top priority, and that's fine.
- CuriousCosmic 4y ago> I tried to install NixOS using the live cd last week in a Hyper-V VM, but it failed to get anywher e due to SquashFS errors. I'm curious what happened here because just a few weeks ago I was using a NixOS live-cd to rescue a botched gentoo VM on my windows machine (managed with Hyper-V manager). If you give it another shot, run into the issue again, and document it, the Nix community would almost certainly help you debug it and figure out what went wrong.
- password4321 4y agoThanks for sharing your counter-anecdata, I'll give it another shot.
- chriswarbo 4y ago> I tried to install NixOS using the live cd last week in a Hyper-V VM, but it failed to get anywhere due to SquashFS errors. Heh, that reminds me of installing NixOS back around 2014. I didn't have any way to physically boot off the install CD; so I ran it in qemu, using my real /dev/sda as the "virtual" hard drive (which I'd already partitioned). Thankfully there was no interference with the host system (Trisquel). I'm still using (and evolved version of) the same NixOS config to this day; it still contains the following comment ( https://github.com/Warbo/nix-config/blob/master/nixos/machines/thinkpad.nix https://github.com/Warbo/nix-config/blob/master/nixos/machin... ): trace "FIXME: Which modules are artefacts of using QEMU to install?"