diff --git a/overlays/cascade-installer.nix b/overlays/cascade-installer.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index 6f2597a..0000000
--- a/overlays/cascade-installer.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,63 +0,0 @@
-final: prev: {
-cascade-installer = prev.writeShellApplication {
-  name="cascade-installer";
-  runtimeInputs = with final; [ bash git parted util-linux jq ];
-  text=''
-    usage() {
-      1>&2 echo "usage: cascade-installer HOSTNAME BLOCKDEVTONUKE PROFILE"
-    }
-    if [ -z "$1" ] || [ -z "$2" ] || [ -z "$3" ];then
-      usage
-      exit 1
-    fi
-    
-    HOSTNAME="$1"
-    BLOCKDEVTONUKE="$2"
-    PROFILE="$3"
-
-    if ! [ -d /usr/src/cascade/profiles/"$PROFILE" ];then
-      1>&2 echo "profile $PROFILE does not exist. possible options:"
-      (cd /usr/src/cascade/profiles/ && 1>&2 printf "  %s\n" [a-zA-Z0-9]*)
-      exit 1
-    fi
-
-    mkdir -p /mnt
-
-    # if the block device has children...
-    if lsblk -J "$BLOCKDEVTONUKE" | jq -e '.blockdevices[]|.children' > /dev/null ; then
-        1>&2 echo "$BLOCKDEVTONUKE still has partitions.  please clear the block device before installing"
-        exit 3
-    fi
-
-    parted "$BLOCKDEVTONUKE" -- mklabel gpt
-    parted "$BLOCKDEVTONUKE" -- mkpart primary 512MiB -2GiB
-    parted "$BLOCKDEVTONUKE" -- mkpart primary linux-swap -2GiB 100%
-    parted "$BLOCKDEVTONUKE" -- mkpart ESP fat32 1MiB 512MiB
-    parted "$BLOCKDEVTONUKE" -- set 3 esp on
-    parted "$BLOCKDEVTONUKE" -- name 1 nixos
-    parted "$BLOCKDEVTONUKE" -- name 2 nixos-swap
-    parted "$BLOCKDEVTONUKE" -- name 3 ESP
-
-    sync
-    sleep 3
-
-    BLK_NIXOS="$(lsblk -OJ "$BLOCKDEVTONUKE" | jq -r '.blockdevices[].children[]|select(.partlabel == "nixos")|.name')"
-    BLK_SWAP="$(lsblk -OJ "$BLOCKDEVTONUKE" | jq -r '.blockdevices[].children[]|select(.partlabel == "nixos-swap")|.name')"
-    BLK_ESP="$(lsblk -OJ "$BLOCKDEVTONUKE" | jq -r '.blockdevices[].children[]|select(.partlabel == "ESP")|.name')"
-    mkfs.xfs -L nixos "$BLK_NIXOS"
-    mkswap -L nixos-swap "$BLK_SWAP"
-    mkfs.fat -F 32 -n BOOT "$BLK_ESP"
-
-    mount "$BLK_NIXOS" /mnt
-    mkdir -p /mnt/boot /mnt/etc/nixos
-    sed -e '
-      s#[(] *toString ../profiles/.*[)]#(toString /usr/src/cascade/profiles/'"$PROFILE"')#
-      s#networking.hostName = "nixos";#networking.hostName = "'"$HOSTNAME"'";#
-    ' < /usr/src/cascade/hosts/_basic.nix > /etc/nixos/configuration.nix
-
-    swapon "$BLK_SWAP"
-    nixos-install
-  '';
-  };
-}
-