orangc's Flake Documentation

Installation

https://nixos.org/manual/nixos/stable/#sec-installation-manual

This assumes that you are running these commands from a NixOS system yourself. If you do not have the dots directory, get it via git clone https://github.com/orangci/dots. Replace HOSTNAME and USERNAME with your intended hostname and username respectively. For documentation on installing for homelab/server usage, see the relevant documentation.

This installation does not create a swap partition. Edit/add commands as you see fit in order to create one, if necessary.

  • wipefs -a /dev/sda
  • nix-shell -p parted git btrfs-progs
  • parted /dev/sda -- mklabel gpt
  • parted /dev/sda -- mkpart root btrfs 512MB
  • parted /dev/sda -- mkpart ESP fat32 1MB 512MB
  • parted /dev/sda -- set 2 esp on
  • mkfs.btrfs -L HOSTNAME /dev/sda1
  • mkfs.fat -F 32 -n boot /dev/sda2
  • mount /dev/disk/by-label/HOSTNAME /mnt
  • mkdir -p /mnt/boot
  • mount -o umask=077 /dev/disk/by-label/boot /mnt/boot
  • nixos-generate-config --root /mnt --show-hardware-config > dots/hosts/HOSTNAME/hardware.nix
  • Commit and push (or, if you're not me, git add .)
  • nixos-install --flake .#HOSTNAME
  • nixos-enter --root /mnt
  • passwd USERNAME
  • cat /etc/ssh/ssh_host_ed25519_key.pub | ssh-to-age
  • Setup secrets configuration with the above host key.