[anton96]

About NixOS, there's something really basic that I cannot seem to grasp. I had already installed many linux distro's with time, after the years I was really found on KDE and ZFS.

I've stumbled upon this tutorial with great interests and yet I can't start to see what is the expected install workflow. Are you expected to write your nix config file booting on the live medium, how could you easily transfer this config file to your install medium.

As much as I understand that targeting the right ZFS dataset and so should not be included in box and I was still happy to find some mention of it in the official doc. I don't understand this mix of an all seeing doc, spanning across many technologies and configurations set and yet what I could call the context is rather absent.

[pxc]

Are you referring to impermanence or the erase-your-darlings config?

This tutorial is for Nix itself, not the operating system based on it, which is why it doesn't include install instructions for NixOS.

For a normal NixOS setup with ZFS, traditionally you just partition manually, then mount the datasets how you want for NixOS under /mnt, and the nixos-generate-config command generates a hardware-configuration.nix file which automatically includes all of those mounts for your to-be-installed NixOS system.

You tweak configuration.nix on the target media under /mnt/etc/nixos/configuration.nix, and then run nixos-install and reboot into the new system.