nixpkgs/nixos/doc/manual/configuration/profiles/clone-config.section.md

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Clone Config

This profile is used in installer images. It provides an editable configuration.nix that imports all the modules that were also used when creating the image in the first place. As a result it allows users to edit and rebuild the live-system.

On images where the installation media also becomes an installation target, copying over configuration.nix should be disabled by setting installer.cloneConfig to false. For example, this is done in sd-image-aarch64-installer.nix.