I finally got around to expanding my nixos-auto-install project to allow for different hardware profiles.

In the past I had been editing the various files to install to /dev/sda or /dev/nvme0n1 or whatever the case may be - but this is annoying so I wrote a short bit of python to loop through a yaml file and build a seperate iso for each profile:

sda-standard:
  root_device: /dev/sda
  root_size: 100%

k8s:
  root_device: /dev/nvme0n1
  root_size: 100GB

qemu:
  root_device: /dev/sda
  root_size: 100%

nixos-auto-install > just
black .
All done! ✨ 🍰 ✨
1 file left unchanged.
flake8 . --ignore=E501,W503
nix-shell . --run 'python3 main.py'
building sda-standard
sda-standard finished
building k8s
k8s finished
building qemu
qemu finished

In the future I’ll add mbr/uefi features as needed. I’m currently still avoiding uefi on my own computers.

The qemu profile is for testing the iso in kvm:

just test

It should build the images and boot qemu.iso in a simple qemu ‘one-liner’ VM.