[ { name = ["networking" "hostname"]; default = "nixos"; description = "The name of the machine."; } { name = ["boot" "autoDetectRootDevice"]; default = false; description = " Whether to find the root device automatically by searching for a device with the right label. If this option is off, then must be set. "; } { name = ["boot" "rootDevice"]; example = "/dev/hda1"; description = " The device to be mounted on / at system startup. "; } { name = ["boot" "readOnlyRoot"]; default = false; description = " Whether the root device should be mounted writable. This should be set when booting from CD-ROM. "; } { name = ["boot" "rootLabel"]; description = " When auto-detecting the root device (see ), this option specifies the label of the root device. Right now, this is merely a file name that should exist in the root directory of the file system. It is used to find the boot CD-ROM. "; } { name = ["boot" "grubDevice"]; default = ""; example = "/dev/hda"; description = " The device on which the boot loader, Grub, will be installed. If empty, Grub won't be installed and it's your responsibility to make the system bootable. "; } { name = ["boot" "kernelParams"]; default = [ "selinux=0" "apm=on" "acpi=on" "vga=0x317" "console=tty1" "splash=verbose" ]; description = " The kernel parameters. If you want to add additional parameters, it's best to set is true, then each interface not listed here will be configured using DHCP. "; } { name = ["filesystems" "mountPoints"]; example = [ { device = "/dev/hda2"; mountPoint = "/"; } ]; description = " The file systems to be mounted by NixOS. It must include an entry for the root directory (mountPoint = \"/\"). This is the file system on which NixOS is (to be) installed.. "; } { name = ["services" "syslogd" "tty"]; default = 10; description = " The tty device on which syslogd will print important log messages. "; } { name = ["services" "mingetty" "ttys"]; default = [1 2 3 4 5 6]; description = " The list of tty (virtual console) devices on which to start a login prompt. "; } { name = ["services" "mingetty" "waitOnMounts"]; default = false; description = " Whether the login prompts on the virtual consoles will be started before or after all file systems have been mounted. By default we don't wait, but if for example your /home is on a separate partition, you may want to turn this on. "; } { name = ["services" "sshd" "enable"]; default = false; description = " Whether to enable the Secure Shell daemon, which allows secure remote logins. "; } { name = ["services" "sshd" "forwardX11"]; default = false; description = " Whether to enable sshd to forward X11 connections. "; } { name = ["services" "xserver" "enable"]; default = false; description = " Whether to enable the X server. "; } ]