Linode provisions and sizes /dev/sda (root) and /dev/sdb (swap) itself
as whole, unpartitioned block devices before the OS ever boots.
modules/disko/linode.nix declares them with destroy = false (skips
Disko's wipe stage for these disks entirely) and a bare filesystem/swap
content type matching that existing layout, so re-running it against an
already-provisioned disk only mkfs/mkswaps if blkid shows it isn't
formatted yet -- never repartitions or destroys data.
With every host reachable through the installer menu now carrying a
Disko config, auto-install.sh no longer needs to probe the flake and
branch between `disko --mode destroy,format,mount` and a bind-mount
fallback -- it just always runs Disko.
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Both existed only so the installer could boot as an LXC container and
nixos-install some other host from within it, but lxc-* targets are
already excluded from the install menu (nixos-install can't touch its
own running root filesystem), and now have their own direct tarball
path anyway. That left the installer's own LXC form with no real use
case, and packages.all with only two members worth bundling.
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LXC hosts (device busy fix):
modules/platforms/lxc.nix now imports nixpkgs' own
virtualisation/proxmox-lxc.nix, giving every lxc-* host a real
config.system.build.tarball output — a directly `pct restore`-able
Proxmox container image. This is the actual bug fix behind the
"cannot remove real root directory: device busy or in use" error:
lxc-* targets were only reachable through nixos-install, which
bind-mounts / onto /mnt for containers (no raw disk to partition)
and then correctly refuses to modify the filesystem it's currently
running on. auto-install.sh's menu now excludes lxc-* targets
entirely (they deploy via nix build + pct restore instead, see
docs/auto-installer.md) — and, on the same reasoning, also excludes
`installer`/`proxmox-lxc`, which are the installer image's own flake
targets, not deployable hosts.
manageHostName = true keeps host.nix's declared hostnames (upstream's
default would let Proxmox's ambient container config win instead);
privileged = false matches how these containers are actually created.
Eval warnings, now zero across all 19 nixosConfigurations + 4 packages:
- Multiple password options (root/nixos in the installer): nixpkgs'
own installer profile sets initialHashedPassword = "" for
passwordless login, conflicting with our explicit hashedPassword.
Force-nulled the upstream option rather than adopting passwordless
login, since this image now also boots over LAN PXE with
PasswordAuthentication enabled.
- boot.zfs.forceImportRoot default value: set explicitly to false
(matching the two places that already did) in
modules/common/configuration.nix and modules/installer/common.nix,
covering every host and the installer alike.
- Deprecated pkgs.system in modules/build-types/gui.nix: switched to
pkgs.stdenv.hostPlatform.system.
All confirmed non-behavioral where it matters: unrelated hosts'
drvPaths are byte-identical to their pre-existing baselines throughout.
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Finishes the nix-auto-installer migration: scripts/prepare-host-key.sh
and the local host-keys/ directory (gitignored, private key material,
never committed — moved as plain files, not through git history)
weren't carried over in the initial migration.
Also implements automatic key staging, replacing the manual
scp-after-boot step:
- modules/installer/host-keys.nix reads host-keys/ via
builtins.getEnv, which Nix silently returns as "" under normal
(non---impure) evaluation — the module is a no-op by default, safe
for CI, until explicitly opted into:
NIXOS_HOST_KEYS_DIR=$(pwd)/host-keys nix build .#iso --impure
When built this way every key present gets baked into the image at
/etc/host-keys/, and auto-install.sh installs whichever one matches
the flake target selected at install time — no manual per-host scp.
- This deliberately includes the PXE netboot variant, even though
pxe-boot serves it unauthenticated over LAN HTTP: accepted
explicitly as a reasonable trade-off for a network that sits behind
LAN-only infrastructure, not the open internet. auto-install.sh
still falls back to /root/host-keys (manual scp) if a key isn't
baked in, so images built without --impure keep working exactly as
before.
- docs/auto-installer.md replaces nix-auto-installer's README,
updated for in-repo paths and the new build flow.
Verified: normal `nix eval` (no --impure) evaluates identically across
all 19 nixosConfigurations + 4 packages with zero host-keys/* entries
(CI-unaffected); with --impure + the env var set, all three installer
variants (installer/ISO, proxmox-lxc, pxe) correctly embed every key
in host-keys/.
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