Is it possible to generate an iso from this flake?

[YuanziX]

Currently I am on arch linux and I want to switch to nix, my question is, is it possible to generate an ISO from this flake, to avoid the step of installing some other flavor first and then switch to this? I looked it up and found that it is possible to do so through nixos-generators (for which i need nix, which defeats the purpose of wanting to this). Is there any other way of achieving this? Sorry if this is a super newbie question, and thanks in advance.

[richen604]

@YuanziX You're spot on, nixos-generators is exactly what you would need.
you would clone the project, add the nixos-generators flake as per docs. and generate the iso using nixosConfigurations.hydenix

you can do this all from arch using nix. i recommend you install from nix-installer from DeterminateSystems

it would be a good idea to have iso's for this generate for releases, i plan on making a ci script for this eventually

[YuanziX]

Used tty and i was able to login correctly, but hyprland wouldn't launch.

>>>>>> very big logs here <<<<<<

[YuanziX]

what I understand after looking at the logs is that sddm is working fine but hyprland is not launching.

[YuanziX]

The logs have some 'nouveau' stuff in them so I tried it on a system without a nvidia GPU in it and it booted fine, guess it's due to that then.

[richen604]

looking at the logs its opengl/hardware acceleration related. im guessing nvidia gpu?

revise hosts/nixos/configuration.nix & setup nvidia (or other) drivers there. then regenerate iso

I'll create a special drivers.nix file with common setups and include it in the readme

nix doesnt really have a way to detect drivers (besides hacks like nixGL)

[YuanziX]

I added the nvidia conf that I used from the time that I last used nix but it still didn't work, same issue. I guess I'll just install it normally, thanks for your help.