Installation issues on macOS Catalina

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I’m trying to install nix on my macbook running macOS 10.15.7 (Catalina). The initial install told me

❯ curl -L https://nixos.org/nix/install | sh
...
Note: a multi-user installation is possible. See https://nixos.org/nix/manual/#sect-multi-user-installation

Installing on macOS >=10.15 requires relocating the store to an apfs volume.
Use sh <(curl -L https://nixos.org/nix/install) --darwin-use-unencrypted-nix-store-volume or run the preparation steps manually.
See https://nixos.org/nix/manual/#sect-macos-installation

So then I tried

❯ sh <(curl -L https://nixos.org/nix/install) --darwin-use-unencrypted-nix-store-volume
...
Note: a multi-user installation is possible. See https://nixos.org/nix/manual/#sect-multi-user-installation
Creating volume and mountpoint /nix.

     ------------------------------------------------------------------
    | This installer will create a volume for the nix store and        |
    | configure it to mount at /nix.  Follow these steps to uninstall. |
     ------------------------------------------------------------------

  1. Remove the entry from fstab using 'sudo vifs'
  2. Destroy the data volume using 'diskutil apfs deleteVolume'
  3. Remove the 'nix' line from /etc/synthetic.conf or the file

Configuring /etc/synthetic.conf...
Password:
nix
Creating mountpoint for /nix...
Creating a Nix Store volume...
error: refusing to create Nix store volume because the boot volume is
       FileVault encrypted, but encryption-at-rest is not available.
       Manually create a volume for the store and re-run this script.
       See https://nixos.org/nix/manual/#sect-macos-installation

I checked out the documentation (Introduction), but it doesn’t say anything about this error message or how to work around it.

So how do I proceed doing this manually? And why doesn’t the installer just do it for me automatically?

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