wolverian / dotfiles

Setting up a new NixOS installation

• Boot a new VM using the nixos live CD with root password set to "root"
• Check the ip number of the VM: ifconfig
• Update the Makefile with the ip and then run make bootstrap in the host
  • Sometimes the disk partitions get a p prefix, like for nvme0n1 so you need to add p<number> as suffix
• run make install
• The previous step will reboot into the live CD again, remove the media, and reboot the VM.
• ssh to the VM ssh root@<ip>
• mv /etc/nixos/dotfiles /home/antti/dotfiles && chown antti:users -R /home/antti/dotfiles
• Change remote origin to [e-mail]:anttih/dotfiles.git
• rm /etc/nixos/configuration.nix
• Set password for antti with sudo passwd antti
• scp the private and public key to the machine
• ssh-add ~/.ssh/<key>

Rebuilding

$ sudo nixos-rebuild switch --flake .#<host>