I have been distro hopping for 20 years, been seeing a lot about Nixos, several videos in and i am interested to give it a go.
Boot into installer, no network.
ok fine, ill enable the wifi, enable in bios, boot into installer, no network.
ugh, fine ill use usb tether to get installed and figure out network drivers later.
Installer now works, great, install over my last linux install wiping everything, installer starts and 7 error messages pop up and all kde windows and bars close, installer still running and doing stuff so great.
installer says install failed. ffs.
AsRock X870E Taichi
AMD 9950x3d
AMD 9800xt
so how do you go about making an iso that has a chance of installing on i guess fairly new hardware?
its been about 15 years since i had a distro not see my network card so i am kinda lost right now. ill try again on the weekend.
Ok, well i guess i will go f myself, you all enjoy yourselves and thank you for the guidance and letting me know what’s what with this OS flavour.
Hello
I am sorry for your frustration but this is a forum where all write in their free time.
That will sometimes lead to unanswered posts.
To better help you can you pleas post the errors the installer threw?
To see the logs you can click on the little icon on the right site on the install bar to see the logs.
Additionally, I can point a little to what was going wrong. The X870E motherboards require newer drivers than are in the stable kernel in 24.11, so you would need to use the unstable ISO, which can be downloaded here. I’m not sure what was meant by “AMD 9800xt” since to my knowledge no such GPU exists other than an ATI 9800XT GPU from 2003. But if they meant 9070 XT then the issue with that is that the card is extremely new and driver support is definitely WIP. You would also need unstable for that.
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My apologies, that was rude of me, i was frustrated seeing all the latest hype for Nix and having it all fold up during my install attempt. i will try the unstable version.
and i meant to put 7900xtx as my gpu.
Ah, that makes sense. That GPU should be pretty solid by now, even on stable. But the motherboard likely does need newer drivers, and the easiest way to get them is probably using the unstable ISO, yea.