Installing on a new machine

On a new machine, do the following:

Install NixOS on a flashdrive. Replace “sdX” with correct device name
```
dd if=path-to-image of=/dev/sdX status=progress
    
```
Create the machine-specific configuration, see machine/ for examples.
Boot the new machine onto the flashdrive. Booting onto a flashdrive is machine specific. Search it.

Get my scripts

git clone https://github.com/iowaguy/dotfiles workspace/areas/system-management/dotfiles/

Run my installer script

cd home/programs/mynix
sudo ./mynix fresh

Reboot

Run post-install script

git clone https://github.com/iowaguy/dotfiles ~/workspace/areas/system-management/dotfiles
cd /persist/home/ben/workspace/areas/system-management/dotfiles/home/programs/mynix
./mynix install

Add new machine’s syncthing ID to the devices in the configuration.nix, and add the device names to the list of devices to sync for each dir.
Trust GPG key. The GPG-ID is the last 12 characters of the fingerprint from gpg -k.
```
gpg --edit-key <KEY_ID>
gpg> trust
    
```

Setup pass

git clone git@github.com:iowaguy/passwords.git ~/.password-store
pass init <GPG-ID>

Install doom-emacs

git clone https://github.com/hlissner/doom-emacs ~/.emacs.d
~/.emacs.d/bin/doom install

Generate ssh key

ssh-keygen -t ed25519 -C "ben@<HOSTNAME>"

install Better BibTeX
Follow installation instructions here.

install zotfile plugin for zotero

use zotfile to rename all pdfs the same as their cite key
- go to tools -> ZotFile preferences -> renaming rules -> set format to %b

export references to bibtex via zotero:

File > Export Libarary > Keep Updated > /home/ben/workspace/projects/zettelkasten/references.bib

Debugging install

If you get an error when creating the zpool that looks like =/dev/sda2 is part of the exported pool ‘rpool’=, run the following, and then try again.

sudo zpool labelclear -f rpool

If there is already a pool with the same name, it may be necessary to zero the disk, like so:

sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=<DEVICE> bs=16M status=progress

Icons

To find icons, use gucharmap.

nix-shell -p gnome.gucharmap --run gucharmap

Use ctrl-f to find the glyph, then right click on the icon to show what font