how to install on NixOS 23.05?

[TheMemeSniper]

maybe it's just me being a nix noob, but installing this through the method in the README, through fetchGitHub or cloning it into a directory and importing it through callPackage all fails with anonymous function at {path to default.nix} called without required argument 'config'

maybe this is also just a side effect of the age of this repository? it still uses super and self...

[Melkor333]

Sorry for ignoring the issue!!
Yeah that and also using callPackage doesn't work, either.

You have to actually add it to your imports if you clone the repo aswell.

FWIW I stopped using it because it fills up your /boot/. I tried to come up with a way to not have this happen, but there's probably no way. The pictures have to be copied into the initrd file and thus this gets big for each NixOS version which you can boot.

[Melkor333]

I just updated the Repo a bit. I actually had a pending change which I forgot about 😄 . I tested it now with a new "way" of configuring it. This gives a bit more freedom to the user and allows for other themes in the future. Please test it and give feedback :)

[TheMemeSniper]

i wiped my nixOS installation when i installed hackintosh, but i'll resize my partitions, install nixOS on the other one and try this again

[thomaslepoix]

Hello @Melkor333, just to notify the growth of /boot because of initrd duplication is not a fatal issue, it can be avoided this way using grub.

[Melkor333]

Hello @Melkor333, just to notify the growth of /boot because of initrd duplication is not a fatal issue, it can be avoided this way using grub.

Uh thanks for the hint! I think this won't work with luks-encrypted devices (and I'm not sure grub can load all kinds of filesystems, like btrfs subvolumes) but mounting an additional EFI partition is certainly more achievable on a running system than growing the /boot which is usually at the beginning of the table!