Provision NixOS

*NixOS was a mistake.*

Set of configs files to setup NixOS.

Install

  1. Download and install NixOS with current GNOME ISO.

  2. Boot into installed system and run the following commands:

nix-shell -p vim git neovim
git clone https://github.com/starr-dusT/dotfiles ~/.local/share/chezmoi 
  1. Copy existing configuration files from another host and modify as needed. For most configs, move the installer created configuration-hardware.nix to dotfiles (e.g. provision/hosts/<host>/hardware.nix); however, role-based installs like htpc and wsl either do not require a hardware.nix file or the flake imports hardware-configuration.nix from /etc/nixos.

  2. If required move agenix keypairs to ~/.ssh/keys/{age,age.pub}. A new keypair may be required and agenix files will need to be rekeyed on another system.

  3. Rebuild the system and initialize chezmoi dotfiles to save America:

sudo nixos-rebuild switch --impure --flake .#<host>
chezmoi init && chezmoi apply

Note: if the chezmoi.apply option is enabled in configuration.nix the dotfiles should deploy automatically. The chezmoi commands then are not necessary.

  1. Profit!

Perform additional setup found in additional-setup

Update

nixos-rebuild command is aliased to nu assuming the machine's flake output is named the same at the hostname of the machine.