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 My dotfiles - including my vim, terminal and font configs.
-Mostly focusing on setting things up on NixOS, but supporting other OSes where posible.
+Mostly focusing on setting things up on NixOS, but supporting other OSes where possible.
 
 bootstrap new machine with NixOS:
 
-1. Launch [NixOS livecd](https://nixos.org/nixos/download.html).
-
-1. `[livecd]` `curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cyplo/dotfiles/master/nixos/bootstrap-livecd.sh | bash` or `curl -L  https://with.lv/jXfyJo | bash`
-
-2. Reboot into the system running from the disk drive.
-
-3. Launch `curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cyplo/dotfiles/master/nixos/bootstrap-rebooted.sh | bash` from the installed system.
+1. boot the target machine from the livecd
+1. change password for the default user `nixos`
+1. ssh from another, already bootstrapped, machine
+1. `sudo su -`
+1. `yes | parted /dev/sda -- mklabel gpt`
+1. [ ] LUKS !
+1. `parted /dev/sda -- mkpart ESP fat32 1MiB 1GiB`
+1. `parted /dev/sda -- set 1 esp on`
+1. `parted /dev/sda -- mkpart primary btrfs 1GiB -8193MiB`
+1. http://opensource.hqcodeshop.com/Parted%20calculator/parted_mkpart_calc.sh
+1. `parted /dev/sda -- mkpart primary linux-swap XXX 100%`
+1. `mkfs.fat -F 32 -n boot /dev/sda1`
+1. `mkfs.btrfs -L nixos /dev/sda2`
+1. `mkswap -L swap /dev/sda3`
+1. `mount /dev/disk/by-label/nixos /mnt`
+1. `mkdir -p /mnt/boot`
+1. `mount /dev/disk/by-label/boot /mnt/boot`
+1. `swapon /dev/sda3`
+1. `nixos-generate-config --root /mnt`
+1. `vim /mnt/etc/nixos/configuration.nix`