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by edude03 380 days ago
I built something like this a few years ago. Essentially how it worked is you'd specify the path to a nix flake in the kernel parameters, and once the installer was booted it would pull that flake and run it (which ran the installer, formatted the disks and restarted the system). It was part of a larger project but I wonder how the nix team would feel about a small binary that would be included in the default installer image that does this
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I'd love to see something like this. The lack of installer automation in the official installation docs was surprising to me when I first started.