NixOS Asahi-Installer Package

A package that enables easy installation of NixOS onto bare metal Apple Silicon Macs using the asahi-installer and derivations from nixos-apple-silicon.

Note

This project is a work in progress and code will change. Contributions and issues are appreciated.

Installation

Using the installer script:

curl -sL -o install-nixos.sh "https://nixos-asahi.qeden.dev/install"
sh ./install-nixos.sh

# or if you're feeling reckless
sh <(curl -sL "https://nixos-asahi.qeden.dev/install")

This 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.

Building

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 setting up a nix builder vm on MacOS.

nix build .#packages.aarch64-linux.installerPackage.btrfs # or .ext4
# builds the package derived from the disk image

nix build .#packages.aarch64-linux.image.btrfs # or .ext4
# builds just the disk image

Credits

Credits go to:

• tpwrules/nixos-apple-silicon for providing the derivations for all of the Asahi packages as well as the NixOS module that implements them.
• Asahi Linux for providing the necessary tools and infrastructure for enabling Linux on Apple Silicon.

License

The Nix derivations, scripts, and documentation in this repository are licensed under the MIT license as included in the LICENSE file.