nixpkgs/configuration/rescue-cd.nix

rec {

  
  nixpkgsRel = "nixpkgs-0.11pre7785";


  configuration = {
  
    boot = {
      autoDetectRootDevice = true;
      readOnlyRoot = true;
      # The label used to identify the installation CD.
      rootLabel = "NIXOS";
      initrd = {
        enableSplashScreen = pkgs.stdenv.system != "x86_64-linux";
      };
    };
    
    services = {
    
      sshd = {
        enable = false;
      };
      
      xserver = {
        enable = false;
      };

      # Allow the user to do something useful on tty8 while waiting
      # for the installation to finish.
      extraJobs = [
        { name = "rogue";
          job = "
            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 = {
        enable = pkgs.stdenv.system != "x86_64-linux";
        specificThemes = [
          { tty = 8;
            theme = pkgs.fetchurl {
              url = http://www.bootsplash.de/files/themes/Theme-GNU.tar.bz2;
              md5 = "61969309d23c631e57b0a311102ef034";
            };
          }
        ];
      };
      
    };

    fonts = {
      enableFontConfig = false;
    };
    
    installer = {
      nixpkgsURL = http://nix.cs.uu.nl/dist/nix/ + nixpkgsRel;
    };

  };


  system = import ../system/system.nix {
    inherit configuration;
    stage2Init = "/init";
  };


  pkgs = system.pkgs;
  

  # Since the CD is read-only, the mount points must be on disk.
  cdMountPoints = pkgs.runCommand "mount-points" {} "
    ensureDir $out
    cd $out
    mkdir proc sys tmp etc dev var mnt nix nix/var root
    touch $out/${configuration.boot.rootLabel}
  ";


  # 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 = "0f554f092d94cc2cb7fe1e5c09f26adc";
  };


  # The configuration file for isolinux.
  isolinuxCfg = pkgs.writeText "isolinux.cfg" "
    default linux
    prompt 1
    timeout 60
    label linux
      kernel vmlinuz
      append initrd=initrd ${toString (system.config.get ["boot" "kernelParams"])}
  ";
    


  # Create an ISO image containing the isolinux 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 cdrtools;
    isoName = "nixos.iso";

    # Single files to be copied to fixed locations on the CD.
    contents = [
      { source = pkgs.syslinux + "/lib/syslinux/isolinux.bin";
        target = "isolinux/isolinux.bin";
      }
      { source = isolinuxCfg;
        target = "isolinux/isolinux.cfg";
      }
      { source = pkgs.kernel + "/vmlinuz";
        target = "isolinux/vmlinuz";
      }
      { source = system.initialRamdisk + "/initrd";
        target = "isolinux/initrd";
      }
      { source = cdMountPoints;
        target = "/";
      }
      { source = nixosTarball + "/" + nixosTarball.tarName;
        target = "/" + nixosTarball.tarName;
      }
      { source = nixpkgsTarball;
        target = "/nixpkgs.tar.bz2";
      }
    ];

    # Closures to be copied to the Nix store on the CD.
    storeContents = [
      { object = system.bootStage2;
        symlink = "/init";
      }
      # To speed up the installation, provide the full stdenv.
      { object = pkgs.stdenv;
        symlink = "none";
      }
    ];
    
    bootable = true;
    bootImage = "isolinux/isolinux.bin";
  };


}