Installation Device
- Provides a basic configuration for installation devices like CDs. This means
- enabling hardware scans, using the
- Clone Config profile to guarantee
- /etc/nixos/configuration.nix exists (for
- nixos-rebuild to work), a copy of the Nixpkgs channel
- snapshot used to create the install media.
+ Provides a basic configuration for installation devices like CDs.
+ This enables redistributable firmware, includes the
+ Clone Config profile
+ and a copy of the Nixpkgs channel, so nixos-install
+ works out of the box.
-
- Additionally, documentation for
- Nixpkgs and NixOS
- are forcefully enabled (to override the
+ Documentation for Nixpkgs
+ and NixOS are
+ forcefully enabled (to override the
Minimal profile preference); the
- NixOS manual is shown automatically on TTY 8, sudo and udisks are disabled.
- Autologin is enabled as root.
+ NixOS manual is shown automatically on TTY 8, udisks is disabled.
+ Autologin is enabled as nixos user, while passwordless
+ login as both root and nixos is possible.
+ Passwordless sudo is enabled too.
+ wpa_supplicant is
+ enabled, but configured to not autostart.
+
+
+ It is explained how to login, start the ssh server, and if available,
+ how to start the display manager.
- A message is shown to the user to start a display manager if needed, ssh with
- are enabled (but
- doesn't autostart). WPA Supplicant is also enabled without autostart.
-
-
-
- Finally, vim is installed, root is set to not have a password, the kernel is
- made more silent for remote public IP installs, and several settings are
- tweaked so that the installer has a better chance of succeeding under
- low-memory environments.
+ Several settings are tweaked so that the installer has a better chance of
+ succeeding under low-memory environments.