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Nomarchy/hosts/nomarchy-installer.nix
Bernardo Magri f318585dc4 fix(installer): harden disk selection and partitioning phase
The disk phase was the dominant source of incomplete installs. Six
concrete failure modes addressed in one pass:

1. Live-ISO USB excluded from the disk picker. select_disk previously
   filtered loop|ram|zram|sr but not the device the installer booted
   from; picking it would format the boot media mid-install. New
   detect_live_iso_devices walks /, /iso, /run/initramfs/live,
   /nix/.ro-store, /nix/store and resolves each backing device to its
   parent disk via lsblk -no PKNAME. Override with
   NOMARCHY_INSTALL_ALLOW_ISO_TARGET=1 for the developer case.

2. 10 GiB minimum-capacity preflight. Disko fails late and obscurely
   on undersized media; surface it while the picker is still open.

3. prewipe_target_drive rewritten:
   - Enumerates every active dm-crypt mapping via dmsetup ls and
     closes those whose backing device is on the target drive. The
     old version only knew about the hardcoded names "crypted" /
     "crypted_main" so an aborted multi-disk run or a non-Nomarchy
     install would leave a holder open and silently break the wipe.
   - Drops `|| true` from wipefs / sgdisk / dd. After the LUKS and
     swap teardown above, a real failure means something is still
     holding the device — surface that instead of papering over it.
   - udevadm settle bounded to 30s so a flapping USB can't hang.
   - Post-wipe sanity check: refuse to hand the disk to disko if
     anything is still mounted off it.

4. run_disko_with_retry wraps the disko call. On failure, shows the
   last 30 lines of output via gum style and offers Retry /
   View full log / Abort. set -e is suspended for the disko call so
   the exit code can be inspected. The previous bare `disko --mode
   disko` aborted the whole installer with output scrolled past.

5. Sed-templated disko-golden.nix + disko-btrfs-multi.nix pair
   replaced by a single disko-config.nix Nix function of
   { mainDrive, extraDrives ? [] } called via --argstr / --arg.
   Templating Nix via shell-escaped string substitution caused at
   least one production bug (3aadc36 fixed embedded-newline
   escaping); function arguments are the right shape and eliminate
   the entire class of escaping concerns. Single-disk path is
   `extraDrives = []`; multi-disk gets BTRFS `-d single -m raid1`
   plus the additional /dev/mapper/* devices. Hosts that shipped
   /etc/disko-golden.nix now ship /etc/disko-config.nix.

6. EXIT trap added so the tmpfs LUKS key file (/dev/shm/nomarchy-
   luks.key) is removed even if the script aborts between key-write
   and the explicit unset. Replaced redundant `shred -u` on tmpfs
   with `rm -f` (already in RAM).

Verification: bash -n on install.sh, nix-instantiate parse + strict
eval on disko-config.nix in both single and multi shapes, full
nix flake check --no-build evaluating all three NixOS configurations
(default, nomarchy-installer, nomarchy-live) plus the installerVm.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-04-30 19:42:00 +01:00

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{ config, pkgs, inputs, lib, ... }:
# Minimal TTY Installer ISO Configuration
#
# This creates a minimal, text-only installation environment.
# No desktop environment - just TTY with gum-based installer.
{
imports = [
../core/system/nix.nix
../core/system/branding.nix
];
# Base installation media configuration is handled by the module imported in flake.nix
# Console configuration for a pleasant TTY experience.
# keyMap and i18n.defaultLocale are mkDefault — the install.sh keymap step
# calls `loadkeys` at runtime to honor the user's pick during the install,
# and writes the chosen value into the *installed* system's system.nix.
console = {
font = "ter-v16n";
packages = [ pkgs.terminus_font ];
keyMap = lib.mkDefault "us";
};
i18n.defaultLocale = lib.mkDefault "en_US.UTF-8";
# ISO Branding
isoImage.volumeID = lib.mkForce "NOMARCHY_INSTALLER";
isoImage.edition = lib.mkForce "minimal";
# Essential packages for installation
environment.systemPackages = with pkgs; [
# Core utilities
git
vim
curl
wget
# TUI installer dependencies
gum
# Disk tools
inputs.disko.packages.${pkgs.stdenv.hostPlatform.system}.disko
parted
btrfs-progs
cryptsetup
# Network tools
networkmanager
# System info
lshw
pciutils
usbutils
# Installer command
(pkgs.writeShellScriptBin "nomarchy-install" ''
exec /etc/install.sh "$@"
'')
];
# Enable NetworkManager for easy network setup
networking.networkmanager.enable = true;
# Auto-login to TTY as root for installation
services.getty.autologinUser = lib.mkForce "root";
# Display welcome message and installer info
environment.etc."motd".text = ''
NOMARCHY INSTALLER
Run 'nomarchy-install' to start the installation wizard
For network setup: nmtui
For manual install: see /etc/nomarchy/
'';
# Make the installer script available
environment.etc."install.sh" = {
source = ../installer/install.sh;
mode = "0755";
};
environment.etc."hardware-db.sh" = {
source = ../installer/hardware-db.sh;
mode = "0644";
};
# Symlink for easy access (merged into systemPackages above)
# The nomarchy-install script is created by writeShellScriptBin in the main list
# Include disko configuration
environment.etc."disko-config.nix".source = ../installer/disko-config.nix;
# Include Nomarchy source for installation
environment.etc."nomarchy".source = inputs.self;
# Disable graphical stuff - this is TTY only
services.xserver.enable = false;
services.displayManager.sddm.enable = lib.mkForce false;
# Ensure we have a proper shell environment
programs.bash.completion.enable = true;
# Auto-launch installer on the main TTY (tty1)
programs.bash.loginShellInit = ''
if [ "$(tty)" = "/dev/tty1" ]; then
nomarchy-install
fi
'';
# Include documentation
documentation.enable = true;
documentation.man.enable = true;
}