site-configs

Bootstrapping

Set up your filesystems and other bootstrap configuration as usual. Then, in /mnt/etc/nixos, run:

[root@nixos:/mnt/etc/nixos]# nix-shell -p nixUnstable
[nix-shell:/mnt/etc/nixos]# nix flake init -t github:impl/site-configs
[nix-shell:/mnt/etc/nixos]# nixos-generate-config --root /mnt
[nix-shell:/mnt/etc/nixos]# nixos-install --flake '.#<machine-name>'

(Where <machine-name> should be substituted with the hostname of the machine you want to install.)

Setting up a home directory

When you log in for the first time as a normal user, you should set up Home Manager. Once it's installed, you can use home-manager switch as usual to manage the process, but to create the required configuration you need to evaluate it once directly from its activation package:

$ nix shell \
    "github:impl/site-configs#homeConfigurations.${USER}@$(uname -n).activationPackage" \
    --command home-manager-generation