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Quickstart

Inspired by hlissner's README.md

  1. Acquire NixOS 21.11 or newer:

    # Yoink nixos-unstable
wget -O nixos.iso https://channels.nixos.org/nixos-unstable/latest-nixos-minimal-x86_64-linux.iso

# Write it to a flash drive
cp nixos.iso /dev/sdX

  2. Boot into the installer.

  3. Switch to root user: sudo su -

  4. Do your partitions and mount your root to /mnt (for example.

  5. Install these dotfiles:

    nix-shell -p git nixFlakes

# Set HOST to the desired hostname of this system
HOST=...
# Set USER to your desired username (defaults to hlissner)
USER=...

git clone https://github.com/stepp1/nix-dots.git /etc/nix-dots
cd /etc/nix-dots

# Create a host config in `hosts/` and add it to the repo:
# To do this check hlissner's README.md

# Install nixOS
USER=$USER nixos-install --root /mnt --impure --flake .#$HOST

# If you get 'unrecognized option: --impure', replace '--impure' with 
# `--option pure-eval no`.

# Then move the dotfiles to the mounted drive!
mv /etc/nix-dots /mnt/etc/nix-dots

  6. Then reboot and you're good to go!

⚠️ Don't forget to change your root and $USER passwords! They are set to nixos by default.