Something I don't really understand coming from arch, how am I supposed to handle the system installation?
Why is partitioning not part of a config file, but done at installation?
Why is partitioning not part of a config file, but done at installation?
The config file has this line:
imports = [ ./hardware-configuration.nix ];
fileSystems."/" =
{ device = "/dev/disk/by-uuid/14b5b22f-6cd2-4da5-a9a5-6ee74b76509d";
fsType = "ext4";
};
fileSystems."/boot" =
{ device = "/dev/disk/by-uuid/7D69-81E5";
fsType = "vfat";
};
For the initial installation you actually have to set up the partitions and mounts inside the root filesystem manually similar to what you have to do to install Arch.
Then you run the install command. The install command sets up the system with a default (or customized) configuration and also generates the hardware-configuration.nix file so that it matches the root filesystem you have set up before running the install command.
All help is welcomed :).
The configuration.nix system configuration can be moved between systems, but imports a generated hardware-configuration.nix that really should not be moved between systems.
If you don't want user and system specific configuration to intermix by having user-specific software in your system configuration and you want to manage you the dotfiles in your home directory in the style of Nix there is another popular project called home-manager which enables that, but that's totally optional.