https://johannessnilsson.cc/blog A blog. en-us contact@johannessnilsson.cc (Johanness Nilsson) contact@johannessnilsson.cc (Johanness Nilsson) Sun, 23 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://johannessnilsson.cc/blog/optical-media-nixos https://johannessnilsson.cc/blog/optical-media-nixos I remember when burning CDs was a daily activity. What I don't remember is the last time I actually needed to burn one to install an OS, until today. My luggable 486 finally succumbed to time and it failed to boot FreeDOS 1.2 from its CF card. This post covers how I used modern tools, a custom NixOS module, an akaiutil derivation and a few wrapper scripts to burn CDs on a Hackberry, bridging 2026 to hardware from the mid 1990s. Sun, 23 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT contact@johannessnilsson.cc (Johanness Nilsson) NixOSNixRaspberry Pi CM5HackberryHyprLandOptical MediaRetro ComputingDOS486SamplersArchivalGNU-LinuxMusic