add config.wip.fs.temproot.remote.type == none, add config.wip.base.includeInputs, add pkgs.uboot-with-mmc-env, rename config.preface to config.wip.preface
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Host Setup Scripts
This is a library of bash functions, mostly for NixOS system installation.
The (paths to these) scripts are meant to be passed in the scripts
argument to mkSystemsFlake
(see flake.nix
for an example), which makes their functions available in the per-host devShells
/apps
.
Host-specific nix variables are available to the bash functions as @{...}
through substituteImplicit
with the respective host as root context.
Any script passed later in scripts
can overwrite the functions of these (earlier) default scripts.
With the functions from here, a simple four-liner is enough to do a completely automated NixOS installation:
function install-system {( set -eu # 1: diskPaths
prepare-installer "$@"
do-disk-setup "${argv[0]}"
init-or-restore-system
install-system-to $mnt
)}
install-system
Documentation
The above function performs the mostly automated installation of any $HOST
from ../../hosts/
to the local disk(s) (or image file(s)) $DISK
.
On a NixOS host, this can be run by root as: #
nix run .#"$HOST" -- install-system "$DISK"
.
Doing an installation on non-NixOS (but Linux), where nix isn't installed for root, is a bit of a hack, but works as well.
In this case, all nix
commands will be run as $SUDO_USER
, but this script and some other user-owned (or user-generated) code will (need to) be run as root.
If that is acceptable, run with sudo
as first argument: $
nix run .#"$HOST" -- sudo install-system "$DISK"
(And then maybe sudo bash -c 'chown $SUDO_USER: '"$DISK"
afterwards.)
If $DISK
points to something in /dev/
, then it is directly formatted and written to as block device, otherwise $DISK
is (re-)created as raw image and then used as loop device.
For hosts that install to multiple disks, pass a :
-separated list of <disk-name>=<path>
pairs (the name may be omitted only for the "default
" disk).
Once done, the disk can be transferred -- or the image be copied -- to the final system, and should boot there.
If the host's hardware target allows, a resulting image can also be passed to register-vbox
to create a bootable VirtualBox instance for the current user, or to run-qemu
to start it in a qemu VM.
The "Installation" section of each host's documentation should contain host specific details, if any.