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Eelco Dolstra 9fd5d70968 * The CD is now a true live CD: you can run Nix operations in it
thanks to unionfs.  For instance, nix-env and nixos-rebuild work.
  The tricky part was to build a Nix database (in the tmpfs/unionfs)
  which is now necessary to prevent store paths on the CD from being
  deleted right away because they otherwise wouldn't be valid.
  
* nixos-install: use the /etc/nixos/configuration.nix from the target
  file system (don't copy it anymore).  Since the user is supposed to
  mount the target file system on /mnt anyway, we may as well require
  that configuration.nix is placed in /mnt/etc/nixos.  This also makes
  upgrading / reinstalling much easier, since it will automatically
  use the right configuration.nix.

svn path=/nixos/trunk/; revision=10399
2008-01-30 01:28:56 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 241b28d101 * Register everything in the Nix store on the installation CD as a
substitute to speed up installation.

svn path=/nixos/trunk/; revision=7783
2007-01-23 17:17:10 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra c56d3a8ce4 * Actually put the manifest on the CD.
svn path=/nixos/trunk/; revision=7780
2007-01-23 16:48:27 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 995b749f70 * Put a nix-pull manifest of the Nix store on the CD.
svn path=/nixos/trunk/; revision=7777
2007-01-23 15:08:00 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 903a64c87d * Some things are best done in Perl.
svn path=/nixos/trunk/; revision=7773
2007-01-23 14:34:44 +00:00