NixOS Setup

Automatically install and configure NixOS.

Usage

Customize the configuration

Review all files and adjust the configurations to suit your needs. At a minimum, you’ll need to change the following:

• Users:

  • Replace khuedoan with your username.
  • Replace my SSH public keys with yours.
  • Replace khuedoan/dotfiles with your dotfiles repository, or use home-manager to manage all dotfiles.

• Hosts:

  • Replace my hostnames with yours.
  • Adjust hardware configurations to match your system.

Install with the NixOS Live CD

1. Download the latest NixOS live CD from here.
2. Create a bootable USB drive:

sudo dd bs=4M if=/path/to/nixos.iso of=/dev/sda conv=fsync oflag=direct status=progress

3. Boot from the USB drive.
4. Install NixOS from the live CD:

nix-shell -p git gnumake neovim
git clone https://github.com/khuedoan/nixos-setup
cd nixos-setup
# Remember to replace the placeholders
make install host=HOSTNAME disk=/dev/DISK

Apply changes

After installation, clone your repository again and apply changes to the configuration by running:

make

Update hardware configuration

If hardware changes occur, update the hardware configuration using the command in the install target in ./Makefile.

Testing

To test updated configurations without applying them to a running machine, create a VM using:

make test