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nixos-facter not available #423

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elliott-farrall opened this issue Nov 9, 2024 · 1 comment · Fixed by #439
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nixos-facter not available #423

elliott-farrall opened this issue Nov 9, 2024 · 1 comment · Fixed by #439

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I am trying to install to a machine that is running the minimal nixos iso and generate the hardware config using nixos-facter. However, I keep getting

aborted: nixos-facter is not available in booted installer. You may want to boot an installer image from here instead: https://github.com/nix-community/nixos-images

I have tried visiting the page but couldn't find anything on there that helped.
@sedlund sedlund mentioned this issue Dec 18, 2024
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sedlund commented Dec 23, 2024 •
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Just to follow up. If you pre booted an official nixos installer it will not have nixos-facter and nixos-anywhere will use this environment rather than running kexec. If the target machine was booted into a Linux OS it would have kexec'd into an image that has nixos-facter available. So in your situation it is easiest to just opt to use nixos-generate-config instead.

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fix(nixos-generate-config): dont output carriage returns in output files sedlund/nixos-anywhere
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