TL;DR:
- Move /etc/nixos/configuration.nix -> //nixos/configuration.nix
- Move /etc/nixos/hardware-configuration.nix -> //nixos/harware.nix
- Document installer.nix
- Create rebuild.nix wrapper around `sudo nixos-rebuild switch`
Previously I sketched ideas for the configuration.nix for socrates -- also known
as flattop -- the inexpensive Acer laptop residing in my flat and stored that
configuration.nix file in briefcase. Now, however, I have successfully installed
NixOS onto socrates. By default NixOS saves the configuration.nix and
hardware-configuration.nix files to /etc/nixos/. I'm moving both of these files
into briefcase.
Because the command `nixos-rebuild` looks for the NixOS configuration
file in /etc/nixos, I wrote rebuild.nix, which creates a program to
call `nixos-rebuild` with the new location of my configuration.nix.
I'm attempting to configure an old Acer laptop that I bought at a used
electronics store in Shepherd's Bush (~100GBP) as my server. I'd like to install
NixOS on it. The configuration.nix herein defines a starting point for the
configuration for that machine. It isn't currently working.
Troubleshooting and solutions forthcoming...
