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--- tech:cheatsheets:linux:nixos [2025/02/21 18:56] – [Apply configuration] waldemar
+++ tech:cheatsheets:linux:nixos [2025/05/07 04:55] (current) – [System is not lustrated] waldemar
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 ==== Infect system using nixos-infect ====
 Ensure you're root when executing the commands (''sudo -i'')
+<note important>
+If any profile is installed for root (re)move the existing profile at ''/nix/var/nix/profiles/per-user/root'' before infecting.
+</note>
 <code bash>
 touch /etc/ssh/ssh_host_placeholder_key
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     -I nixpkgs=$(realpath $HOME/.nix-defexpr/channels/nixos) \
     -p nixos-rebuild \
-    --run 'nixos-rebuild boot --file /etc/nixos'
+    --run 'nixos-rebuild boot -I nixpkgs=$(realpath $HOME/.nix-defexpr/channels/nixos) -I nixos-config=/etc/nixos/configuration.nix'
 </code>
-Add directories and files you want to keep to ''/etc/NIXOS_LUSTRATE''. This directories and files will not be moved into ''/old-root'' upon replacement.
+Add directories and files you want to keep to ''/etc/NIXOS_LUSTRATE''. These directories and files will not be moved into ''/old-root'' upon replacement.
+Also ensure that if your primary partition is an encrypted partition to add relevant configuration to your ''hardware-configuration.nix''.
 ==== Rescue ====
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 # nixos-rebuild boot
 </code>
+===== Troubleshooting =====
+==== System is not lustrated ====
+For some reason a system is not lustrated (NOTE: system must boot via GRUB for lustrate to work aparently). If that happens a boot might fail due to systemd not finding ''default.target''.
+If that happens a manual lustration might help (= move files manually from root into subfolder).
+Apparently systemd must also not be enabled in initrd for it work.