nixpkgs/rescue-cd.nix
Eelco Dolstra 0817c307dc * Moving stuff around.
svn path=/nixos/trunk/; revision=7155
2006-11-27 19:49:05 +00:00

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Nix

let
# The label used to identify the installation CD.
cdromLabel = "NIXOS";
in
# Build boot scripts for the CD that find the CD-ROM automatically.
with import ./boot-environment.nix {
autoDetectRootDevice = true;
rootLabel = cdromLabel;
stage2Init = "/init";
readOnlyRoot = true;
};
rec {
inherit nixosInstaller bootStage1 upstartJobs; # !!! debug
# Since the CD is read-only, the mount points must be on disk.
cdMountPoints = pkgs.stdenv.mkDerivation {
name = "mount-points";
builder = builtins.toFile "builder.sh" "
source $stdenv/setup
ensureDir $out
cd $out
mkdir proc sys tmp etc dev var mnt nix nix/var
touch $out/${cdromLabel}
";
};
# 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.stdenv.mkDerivation {
name = "tarball";
inherit tarName input;
builder = builtins.toFile "builder.sh" "
source $stdenv/setup
ensureDir $out
(cd $input && tar cvfj $out/$tarName . \\
--exclude '*~' --exclude '.svn' \\
--exclude 'pkgs' --exclude 'result')
";
};
# Put the current directory in the tarball. !!! This gives us a lot
# of crap (like .svn if this is a working copy). An "svn export"
# would be better, but that's impure.
nixosTarball = makeTarball "nixos.tar.bz2" ./.;
nixpkgsTarball = pkgs.fetchurl {
url = http://nix.cs.uu.nl/dist/nix/nixpkgs-0.11pre7087/nixpkgs-0.11pre7087.tar.bz2;
md5 = "c5840fcd049d75e00ad856ecbbef6857";
};
# 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 ./make-iso9660-image.nix {
inherit (pkgs) stdenv cdrtools;
isoName = "nixos.iso";
contents = [
{ source = pkgs.syslinux + "/lib/syslinux/isolinux.bin";
target = "isolinux/isolinux.bin";
}
{ source = ./isolinux.cfg;
target = "isolinux/isolinux.cfg";
}
{ source = pkgs.kernel + "/vmlinuz";
target = "isolinux/vmlinuz";
}
{ source = initialRamdisk + "/initrd";
target = "isolinux/initrd";
}
{ source = cdMountPoints;
target = "/";
}
{ source = nixosTarball + "/" + nixosTarball.tarName;
target = "/" + nixosTarball.tarName;
}
{ source = nixpkgsTarball;
target = "/nixpkgs.tar.bz2";
}
];
init = bootStage2;
bootable = true;
bootImage = "isolinux/isolinux.bin";
};
}