installing-nixos.md

Installin NixOS

• Download minimal iso from nixos.org

• sudo passwd root && su

• wpa_passphrase {SSID} | sudo tee /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf then enter your password

• systemctl restart wpa_supplicant to restart network manager

• (OPTIONAL) continue using ssh by connecting to root@{ip_address} (ifconfig to check ip)

• Manager partitions using cfdisk which is a TUI version of fdisk cfdisk /dev/{disk}

• Add 3 partitions GPT:

  • 512M - EFI System
  • everything left minus swap - Linux filesystem
  • 8G - Linux swap (depends on memory available)

• mount /dev/disk/nixos /mnt

• mkdir -p /mnt/boot

• mount /dev/disk/boot /mnt/boot

• nixos-generate-config --root /mnt