dotfiles/README.md

My dotfiles - including my vim, terminal and font configs. Mostly focusing on setting things up on NixOS, but supporting other OSes where possible.

bootstrap new machine with NixOS:

1. boot the target machine from the livecd
2. change password for the default user nixos
3. ssh from another, already bootstrapped, machine
4. sudo su -
5. yes | parted /dev/sda -- mklabel gpt
6. LUKS !
7. parted /dev/sda -- mkpart ESP fat32 1MiB 1GiB
8. parted /dev/sda -- set 1 esp on
9. parted /dev/sda -- mkpart primary btrfs 1GiB -8193MiB
10. http://opensource.hqcodeshop.com/Parted%20calculator/parted_mkpart_calc.sh
11. parted /dev/sda -- mkpart primary linux-swap XXX 100%
12. mkfs.fat -F 32 -n boot /dev/sda1
13. mkfs.btrfs -L nixos /dev/sda2
14. mkswap -L swap /dev/sda3
15. mount /dev/disk/by-label/nixos /mnt
16. mkdir -p /mnt/boot
17. mount /dev/disk/by-label/boot /mnt/boot
18. swapon /dev/sda3
19. nixos-generate-config --root /mnt
20. vim /mnt/etc/nixos/configuration.nix

guix

I'm just starting to play with guix, these are just loose notes: