{ platform ? __currentSystem , relName ? if builtins.pathExists ../relname then builtins.readFile ../relname else "nixos-${builtins.readFile ../VERSION}" , compressImage ? false , nixpkgsPath ? ../../nixpkgs }: rec { configuration = { boot = { autoDetectRootDevice = true; isLiveCD = true; # The label used to identify the installation CD. rootLabel = "NIXOS"; extraTTYs = [7 8]; # manual, rogue extraModulePackages = pkgs: [system.kernelPackages.aufs]; #kernelPackages = pkgs: pkgs.kernelPackages_2_6_25; initrd = { extraKernelModules = [ # The initrd should contain any modules necessary for # mounting the CD. # SATA/PATA support. "ahci" "ata_piix" "sata_inic162x" "sata_nv" "sata_promise" "sata_qstor" "sata_sil" "sata_sil24" "sata_sis" "sata_svw" "sata_sx4" "sata_uli" "sata_via" "sata_vsc" "pata_ali" "pata_amd" "pata_artop" "pata_atiixp" "pata_cs5520" "pata_cs5530" /* "pata_cs5535" */ "pata_efar" "pata_hpt366" "pata_hpt37x" "pata_hpt3x2n" "pata_hpt3x3" "pata_it8213" "pata_it821x" "pata_jmicron" "pata_marvell" "pata_mpiix" "pata_netcell" "pata_ns87410" "pata_oldpiix" "pata_pcmcia" "pata_pdc2027x" /* "pata_qdi" */ "pata_rz1000" "pata_sc1200" "pata_serverworks" "pata_sil680" "pata_sis" "pata_sl82c105" "pata_triflex" "pata_via" # "pata_winbond" <-- causes timeouts in sd_mod # SCSI support (incomplete). "3w-9xxx" "3w-xxxx" "aic79xx" "aic7xxx" "arcmsr" # USB support, especially for booting from USB CD-ROM # drives. Also include USB keyboard support for when # something goes wrong in stage 1. "ehci_hcd" "ohci_hcd" "usbhid" "usb_storage" # Firewire support. Not tested. "ohci1394" "sbp2" # Wait for SCSI devices to appear. "scsi_wait_scan" # Needed for live-CD operation. "aufs" ]; }; }; networking = { enableIntel3945ABGFirmware = true; }; services = { sshd = { enable = false; forwardX11 = false; }; xserver = { enable = false; }; extraJobs = [ # Unpack the NixOS/Nixpkgs sources to /etc/nixos. # !!! run this synchronously { name = "unpack-sources"; job = " start on startup script export PATH=${pkgs.gnutar}/bin:${pkgs.bzip2}/bin:$PATH mkdir -p /mnt ${system.nix}/bin/nix-store --load-db < /nix-path-registration mkdir -p /etc/nixos/nixos tar xjf /install/nixos.tar.bz2 -C /etc/nixos/nixos tar xjf /install/nixpkgs.tar.bz2 -C /etc/nixos/nixpkgs 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 chdir /root start on udev stop on shutdown respawn ${pkgs.rogue}/bin/rogue < /dev/tty8 > /dev/tty8 2>&1 "; } ]; # And a background to go with that. ttyBackgrounds = { specificThemes = [ { tty = 7; # Theme is GPL according to http://kde-look.org/content/show.php/Green?content=58501. theme = pkgs.fetchurl { url = http://www.kde-look.org/CONTENT/content-files/58501-green.tar.gz; sha256 = "0sdykpziij1f3w4braq8r8nqg4lnsd7i7gi1k5d7c31m2q3b9a7r"; }; } { tty = 8; theme = pkgs.fetchurl { url = http://www.bootsplash.de/files/themes/Theme-GNU.tar.bz2; md5 = "61969309d23c631e57b0a311102ef034"; }; } ]; }; mingetty = { helpLine = '' Log in as "root" with an empty password. Press for help. ''; }; }; fonts = { enableFontConfig = false; }; installer = { nixpkgsURL = http://nixos.org/releases/nixpkgs/unstable; }; security = { sudo = { enable = false; }; }; environment = { extraPackages = pkgs: [ pkgs.vim pkgs.subversion # for nixos-checkout pkgs.w3m # needed for the manual anyway pkgs.gdb # for debugging Nix pkgs.testdisk # useful for repairing boot problems pkgs.mssys # for writing Microsoft boot sectors / MBRs ]; }; }; system = import ../system/system.nix { inherit configuration platform nixpkgsPath; stage2Init = "/init"; }; pkgs = system.pkgs; # The NixOS manual, with a backward compatibility hack for Nix <= # 0.11 (you won't get the manual). manual = if builtins ? unsafeDiscardStringContext then "${import ../doc/manual {inherit nixpkgsPath;}}/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 =makeTarball "nixos.tar.bz2" (builtins.filterSource svnFilter ./..); svnFilter = name: type: let base = baseNameOf (toString name); in base != ".svn" && base != "result"; # Put Nixpkgs in a tarball nixpkgsTarball = makeTarball "nixpkgs.tar.bz2" (builtins.filterSource svnFilter nixpkgsPath); # The configuration file for Grub. grubCfg = pkgs.writeText "menu.lst" '' default 0 timeout 10 splashimage /boot/background.xpm.gz title Boot from hard disk root (hd0) chainloader +1 title NixOS Installer / Rescue kernel /boot/vmlinuz ${toString system.config.boot.kernelParams} initrd /boot/initrd title Memtest86+ kernel /boot/memtest.bin ''; # Create an ISO image containing the Grub boot loader, the kernel, # the initrd produced above, and the closure of the stage 2 init. rescueCD = import ../helpers/make-iso9660-image.nix { inherit nixpkgsPath; inherit (pkgs) stdenv perl cdrkit; isoName = "${relName}-${platform}.iso"; # Single files to be copied to fixed locations on the CD. contents = [ { source = "${pkgs.grub}/lib/grub/i386-pc/stage2_eltorito"; target = "boot/grub/stage2_eltorito"; } { source = grubCfg; target = "boot/grub/menu.lst"; } { source = system.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 = "/install/" + nixosTarball.tarName; } { source = nixpkgsTarball + "/nixpkgs.tar.bz2"; target = "/install/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"; inherit compressImage; }; }