A nix flake containing package expressions for a NixOS disk image utiziling NixOS modules from nixos-apple-silicon to enable compatibility with Apple Silicon hardware, and a zipfile of the disk image which is intended to be used as a package payload with the asahi-installer, so that the user can bootstrap a NixOS install onto an Apple Silicon mac without the use of live installation media.
CAUTION: This project is a work in progress. Code is subject to change, packages probably are not stable enough for use on non-test machines (yet). Contributions and issues are appreciated.
Curl and run the bootstrap installer script from this repository:
curl -sL -o install.sh https://qeden.systems/install && chmod +x install.sh && ./install.sh
# or
curl -sL https://qeden.systems/install | shThis is a modified copy of the bootstrap script from the asahi-installer repository. Be sure to follow the instructions carefully, as it is possible a mistake could leave your system in an unbootable state.
NOTE: An aarch64-linux machine is required to build the NixOS disk image. See the darwin-builder section of the nixpkgs manual for information on building aarch64-linux packages on MacOS.
Building installerPackage will build the image and output the zipfile for the installer. The process involves extracting the efi and root partition images from from the whole disk image, extracting the EFI image to a directory, then zipping the root disk image and esp directory into one zipfile.
nix build --show-trace .#installerPackageBuilding .#nixosImage will output only the disk image and forego repackaging into the zipfile.
The Nix derivations and documentation in this repository are licensed under the MIT license as included in the LICENSE file. Patches included in this repository, and the files that Nix builds, are covered by separate licenses.