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• Local Manual man home-configuration.nix
• Remote

Install

• boot nixos-install iso
• format disk using disko
  • Prepare disk layout config
    • Copy layout over: scp ./profile/disks/disko-laptop-1.nix#TBD <target>:/tmp/disko-config.nix
    • Find disk name: sudo fdisk -l
    • Place disk in device variable vim /tmp/disk-config.nix
  • Create temp file with the password which will be applied to the disk
    • vim /tmp/disk.key
  • Perform the format
    • sudo nix run github:nix-community/disko -- --mode disko /tmp/disko-config.nix
  • Follow Complete the NixOS installation
  • Before running nixos-install
    • Set networking.hostId
    • Add the following config to enable ssh ``` services.openssh.enable = true; services.openssh.settings.PermitRootLogin = "yes";

• reboot
• Apply machine config from local/donar/build machine
  • NIX_SSHOPTS="-t" nixos-rebuild boot --flake ~/Projects/nixos-config/master#jesus --target-host root@jesus

Install 2.0

• (new machine) boot PXE nixos-iso
• (new machine) set password for nixos user passwd
• (new machine) get ip ip addr
• (new machines) check disk lsblk
• (existing machine) add disk encryption key into /tmp/disk.key
• (existing machine) nix run github:nix-community/nixos-anywhere -- --flake ~/Projects/nixos-config/master#lyza -i ~/.ssh/id_rsa --disk-encryption-keys /tmp/disk.key /tmp/disk.key [email protected]

test with vm. Must comment out or disable all encryption due to vm-test not supporting disk key transfer

• (existing machine) nix run github:nix-community/nixos-anywhere -- --flake ~/Projects/nixos-config/master#lyza -i ~/.ssh/id_rsa --vm-test