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+# Clone Config {#sec-profile-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`.