{ platform ? __currentSystem }: rec { nixpkgsRel = "nixpkgs-0.12pre10072"; configuration = { boot = { autoDetectRootDevice = true; isLiveCD = true; # The label used to identify the installation CD. rootLabel = "NIXOS"; extraTTYs = [7 8]; # manual, rogue initrd = { extraKernelModules = [ "unionfs" # needed for live-CD operation ]; }; }; services = { sshd = { enable = false; forwardX11 = false; }; xserver = { enable = false; }; extraJobs = [ # Unpack the NixOS/Nixpkgs sources to /etc/nixos. { name = "unpack-sources"; job = " start on startup script export PATH=${pkgs.gnutar}/bin:${pkgs.bzip2}/bin:$PATH mkdir -p /etc/nixos/nixos tar xjf /nixos.tar.bz2 -C /etc/nixos/nixos tar xjf /nixpkgs.tar.bz2 -C /etc/nixos mv /etc/nixos/nixpkgs-* /etc/nixos/nixpkgs ln -sfn ../nixpkgs/pkgs /etc/nixos/nixos/pkgs chown -R root.root /etc/nixos end script "; } # Show the NixOS manual on tty7. { name = "manual"; job = " env HOME=/root start on udev stop on shutdown respawn ${pkgs.w3m}/bin/w3m ${manual} < /dev/tty7 > /dev/tty7 2>&1 "; } # Allow the user to do something useful on tty8 while waiting # for the installation to finish. { name = "rogue"; job = " env HOME=/root start on udev stop on shutdown respawn ${pkgs.rogue}/bin/rogue < /dev/tty8 > /dev/tty8 2>&1 "; } ]; # And a background to go with that. ttyBackgrounds = { specificThemes = [ { tty = 7; # Theme is GPL according to http://kde-look.org/content/show.php/Green?content=58501. theme = pkgs.fetchurl { url = http://www.kde-look.org/CONTENT/content-files/58501-green.tar.gz; sha256 = "0sdykpziij1f3w4braq8r8nqg4lnsd7i7gi1k5d7c31m2q3b9a7r"; }; } { tty = 8; theme = pkgs.fetchurl { url = http://www.bootsplash.de/files/themes/Theme-GNU.tar.bz2; md5 = "61969309d23c631e57b0a311102ef034"; }; } ]; }; mingetty = { helpLine = '' Log in as "root" with an empty password. Press for help. ''; }; }; fonts = { enableFontConfig = false; }; installer = { nixpkgsURL = http://nix.cs.uu.nl/dist/nix/ + nixpkgsRel; }; security = { sudo = { enable = false; }; }; environment = { extraPackages = pkgs: [ pkgs.vim pkgs.subversion # for nixos-checkout pkgs.w3m # needed for the manual anyway pkgs.gdb # for debugging Nix ]; }; }; system = import ../system/system.nix { inherit configuration platform; stage2Init = "/init"; }; pkgs = system.pkgs; # The NixOS manual, with a backward compatibility hack for Nix <= # 0.11 (you won't get the manual). manual = if builtins ? unsafeDiscardStringContext then "${import ../doc/manual}/manual.html" else pkgs.writeText "dummy-manual" "Manual not included in this build!"; # We need a copy of the Nix expressions for Nixpkgs and NixOS on the # CD. We put them in a tarball because accessing that many small # files from a slow device like a CD-ROM takes too long. makeTarball = tarName: input: pkgs.runCommand "tarball" {inherit tarName;} " ensureDir $out (cd ${input} && tar cvfj $out/${tarName} . \\ --exclude '*~' \\ --exclude 'pkgs' --exclude 'result') "; # Put the current directory in a tarball (making sure to filter # out crap like the .svn directories). nixosTarball = let filter = name: type: let base = baseNameOf (toString name); in base != ".svn" && base != "result"; in makeTarball "nixos.tar.bz2" (builtins.filterSource filter ./..); # Get a recent copy of Nixpkgs. nixpkgsTarball = pkgs.fetchurl { url = configuration.installer.nixpkgsURL + "/" + nixpkgsRel + ".tar.bz2"; md5 = "6a793b877e2a4fa79827515902e1dfd8"; }; # The configuration file for Grub. grubCfg = pkgs.writeText "menu.lst" '' default 0 timeout 10 splashimage /boot/background.xpm.gz title NixOS Installer / Rescue kernel /boot/vmlinuz ${toString system.config.boot.kernelParams} initrd /boot/initrd title Memtest86+ kernel /boot/memtest.bin ''; # Create an ISO image containing the Grub boot loader, the kernel, # the initrd produced above, and the closure of the stage 2 init. rescueCD = import ../helpers/make-iso9660-image.nix { inherit (pkgs) stdenv perl cdrkit; isoName = "nixos-${platform}.iso"; # Single files to be copied to fixed locations on the CD. contents = [ { source = "${pkgs.grub}/lib/grub/i386-pc/stage2_eltorito"; target = "boot/grub/stage2_eltorito"; } { source = grubCfg; target = "boot/grub/menu.lst"; } { source = pkgs.kernel + "/vmlinuz"; target = "boot/vmlinuz"; } { source = system.initialRamdisk + "/initrd"; target = "boot/initrd"; } { source = pkgs.memtest86 + "/memtest.bin"; target = "boot/memtest.bin"; } { source = system.config.boot.grubSplashImage; target = "boot/background.xpm.gz"; } { source = nixosTarball + "/" + nixosTarball.tarName; target = "/" + nixosTarball.tarName; } { source = nixpkgsTarball; target = "/nixpkgs.tar.bz2"; } { source = pkgs.writeText "label" ""; target = "/${configuration.boot.rootLabel}"; } ]; # Closures to be copied to the Nix store on the CD. storeContents = [ { object = system.bootStage2; symlink = "/init"; } { object = system.system; symlink = "/system"; } # To speed up the installation, provide the full stdenv. { object = pkgs.stdenv; symlink = "none"; } ]; bootable = true; bootImage = "boot/grub/stage2_eltorito"; }; }