NixOS dots

This README is a work in progress

Step 1: Setup network

Step 2: Partitioning and formatting

First find disk using lsblk. Might be sda, vda or something else.

sudo -i
parted /dev/{disk name} -- mklabel gpt
parted /dev/{disk name} -- mkpart root ext4 512MB -8GB
parted /dev/{disk name} -- mkpart swap linux-swap -8GB 100%
parted /dev/{disk name} -- mkpart ESP fat32 1MB 512MB
parted /dev/{disk name} -- set 3 esp on

mkfs.ext4 -L nixos /dev/{disk name}1
mkswap -L swap /dev/{disk name}2
mkfs.fat -F 32 -n boot /dev/{disk name}3

lsblk should now show 3 partitions, the first one being the file system, the next being swap and the final being the boot partition

Step 3: Installing

Still in root:

mount /dev/disk/by-label/nixos /mnt

mkdir -p /mnt/boot
mount /dev/disk/by-label/boot /mnt/boot

swapon /dev/disk/by-label/swap

nix-shell -p git
git clone https://github.com/Bryley/nixos-dots.git /mnt/nixos-dots

# Generate new host (TODO, write a script for it)
# nixos-generate-config --root /mnt --show-hardware-config > $HOSTDIR/hardware-configuration.nix

git add .
nixos-install --flake .#<host>

Now you can reboot your system and boot into your hard disk

Step 4: Final touches

First thing todo when booting into your new system is to set a new password for the user (in this case bryley):

passwd bryley

Then login to the account. Finally move the folder to a better location and change the perms:

mv /nixos-dots ~
chown -R bryley:users ~/nixos-dots

Note there are probably some other small things you might want to setup, for example setting up a rust toolchain to get cargo and more:

rustup default stable

Notes when setting up

If you are having trouble with the clipboard in brave or any issues in brave for that matter, try manually chainging the ozone settings to Wayland as it might think it is in X11. Go to chrome://flags, serach for ozone and change Preferred Ozone platform to Wayland.