dotfiles

My one stop shop for setting up my dev environment

Non NixOS

If the system you are running on is not nixos, run the following commands to clone the repository to the local dotfiles dir and do a basic setup.

Note: Ensure git and make are installed

git clone [email protected]:cmrfrd/dotfiles.git ~/.dotfiles
cd ~/.dotfiles
make update nix

Installing NixOS

If this dotfiles is intended to be installed on a NixOS system, proceed with the following steps.

Boot to live CD of NixOS installer

Check the NixOS manual for how to download and setup a usb installer for NixOS. Make sure you are connected to the internet!

Setup small nix-env shell to further setup the environment

nix-env -iA nixos.pkgs.gitAndTools.gitFull nixos.pkgs.gnumake

Download dotfiles repo

USER_HOME=/home/cmrfrd
git clone [email protected]:cmrfrd/dotfiles.git $USER_HOME/.dotfiles
cd $USER_HOME/.dotfiles

Creating a new machine

If you are creating a new machine, use nixos-generate-config to create new basic template under the machines directory.

read -p "Name of machine: " MACHINE_NAME
mkdir -p $USER_HOME/.dotfiles/machines/$MACHINE_NAME
nixos-generate-config --root $USER_HOME/.dotfiles/machines --dir /$MACHINE_NAME

To ensure we are sourcing packages from the right places, update the nix channels to something like this (depending how unstable you want it to be)

home-manager https://github.com/nix-community/home-manager/archive/master.tar.gz
nixos-unstable https://nixos.org/channels/nixos-unstable
nixpkgs https://nixos.org/channels/nixpkgs-unstable

Now go configure the generated configuration.nix with the basic changes needed.

After you are ready to apply your changes, create a symlink to your desired machine for nixos-rebuild and apply the new configuration.

ln -s $USER_HOME/.dotfiles/machines/$MACHINE_NAME/* /etc/nixos/
sudo nixos-rebuild switch

After applying the new configuration make sure you log in as root, change the pw of the user, logout, then log in as the user.