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#!/run/current-system/sw/bin/bash
set -eux
set -euo pipefail
export FLAKE_BASE_URL="git+https://@lanDomain@/beatzaplenty/nixos.git"
echo "Fetching available NixOS hosts from flake..."
# Two categories deliberately excluded from the menu:
# lxc-* — these build a config.system.build.tarball meant for
# `pct restore` on Proxmox directly, not an install.
# Running nixos-install against one here would
# bind-mount / onto /mnt and then refuse to touch the
# filesystem it's currently running on — see
# docs/auto-installer.md.
# installer — this *is* the installer image's own flake target,
# not a deployable host; "installing" it means
# nixos-install-ing a copy of the installer into
# itself.
mapfile -t options < <(
nix eval --json --no-use-registries --no-accept-flake-config --extra-experimental-features "flakes nix-command" \
"${FLAKE_BASE_URL}#nixosConfigurations" \
--apply builtins.attrNames \
| jq -r '.[]
| select(startswith("lxc-") | not)
| select(. != "installer")'
)
if [[ ${#options[@]} -eq 0 ]]; then
echo "ERROR: No NixOS hosts found in ${FLAKE_BASE_URL}#nixosConfigurations" >&2
exit 1
fi
echo "Note: lxc-* targets aren't installed this way — build them with"
echo " nix build .#nixosConfigurations.<name>.config.system.build.tarball"
echo "and 'pct restore' the result on Proxmox directly. See docs/auto-installer.md."
echo "Choose the flake profile to install:"
select choice in "${options[@]}"; do
if [[ -n "$choice" ]]; then
echo "You selected: $choice"
break
else
echo "Invalid selection. Try again."
fi
done
echo "Starting install with flake: ${FLAKE_BASE_URL}#${choice}"
# Optional: confirm before proceeding
read -rp "Proceed with installation? (y/N): " confirm
if [[ ! "$confirm" =~ ^[Yy]$ ]]; then
echo "Aborted."
exit 1
fi
# A nix-cache host is *the* substituter/remote-builder for every other
# host once installed (its own config explicitly excludes itself from
# using either — see buildType != "nix-cache" in the nixos flake.nix).
# Installing one shouldn't depend on a nix-cache substituter either,
# for the same reason — plus in practice "nix-cache" only resolves over
# Tailscale, which a fresh installer environment was never connected to
# anyway, so it's dead weight even for non-nix-cache installs until
# that's sorted out. Override it away here specifically for nix-cache
# targets to keep install-time behaviour consistent with run-time.
nix_extra_opts=()
if [[ "${choice}" == *-nix-cache ]]; then
echo "Installing a nix-cache host — skipping the nix-cache substituter."
nix_extra_opts+=(--option substituters "https://cache.nixos.org/")
fi
# Every host reachable through this menu has a Disko config (lxc-*
# is filtered out above, and is the only category that doesn't —
# see docs/auto-installer.md), so this can run unconditionally: no
# need to probe the flake first and branch on whether Disko applies.
disko --mode destroy,format,mount \
--flake "${FLAKE_BASE_URL}#${choice}" "${nix_extra_opts[@]}" --yes-wipe-all-disks
# sops-nix derives this host's decryption key from its own SSH host key
# at *activation* time, which runs before systemd would otherwise
# generate one on first boot. Without pre-seeding it here, secrets
# (including the login password) fail to decrypt on first boot.
# Generate the key with scripts/secrets/prepare-host-key.sh first.
#
# Two places a key can come from, checked in order:
# /etc/host-keys — baked into this image at build time (see
# modules/installer/host-keys.nix; only present
# if built with NIXOS_HOST_KEYS_DIR set)
# /root/host-keys — scp'd in manually after boot (older fallback,
# still supported for images built without keys)
mkdir -p /root/host-keys
if [[ -f "/etc/host-keys/${choice}_ssh_host_ed25519_key" ]]; then
echo "Found baked-in SSH host key for ${choice}, installing to target..."
install -D -m 0600 "/etc/host-keys/${choice}_ssh_host_ed25519_key" /mnt/etc/ssh/ssh_host_ed25519_key
install -D -m 0644 "/etc/host-keys/${choice}_ssh_host_ed25519_key.pub" /mnt/etc/ssh/ssh_host_ed25519_key.pub
elif [[ -f "/root/host-keys/${choice}_ssh_host_ed25519_key" ]]; then
echo "Found pre-seeded SSH host key for ${choice}, installing to target..."
install -D -m 0600 "/root/host-keys/${choice}_ssh_host_ed25519_key" /mnt/etc/ssh/ssh_host_ed25519_key
install -D -m 0644 "/root/host-keys/${choice}_ssh_host_ed25519_key.pub" /mnt/etc/ssh/ssh_host_ed25519_key.pub
else
echo "WARNING: no SSH host key found for ${choice} (checked /etc/host-keys and /root/host-keys)"
echo "sops-nix secrets (including the login password) will NOT decrypt on first boot."
echo "Run scripts/secrets/prepare-host-key.sh for host ${choice} on your admin workstation first,"
echo "then either rebuild this image with NIXOS_HOST_KEYS_DIR set, or scp the result to"
echo "/root/host-keys/ on this machine."
read -rp "Continue without a pre-seeded key anyway? (y/N): " skip_key
if [[ ! "$skip_key" =~ ^[Yy]$ ]]; then
echo "Aborted."
exit 1
fi
fi
mkdir -p /mnt/install-tmp
export TMPDIR=/mnt/install-tmp
nixos-install \
--flake "${FLAKE_BASE_URL}#${choice}" \
"${nix_extra_opts[@]}" \
--no-root-password
rm -rf /mnt/install-tmp
# Redundant copy of the host's private key — the real one is now at
# /etc/ssh/ssh_host_ed25519_key. Nothing NixOS-managed ever cleans this
# up on its own since it was written imperatively, not declaratively.
rm -rf /root/host-keys
sleep 10
reboot