NixOS installation guide

introduction

this uses flakes

1. obtain nixos ISO (graphical installer is nicer i guess)
2. boot it
3. open up a terminal and partition disk
4. wipe your disk: blkdiscard /dev/nvme0n1

partition your disk

1. create boot partition
2. create root partition
3. parted <device>
4. mklabel gpt
5. mkpart

partitoin name? boot file system type? fat32 start? 0% end? 2GB

1. mkpart

partitoin name? root file system type? btrfs start? 2GB end? 100%

1. set 1 esp on
2. set 1 boot on
3. quit
4. mkfs.btrfs /dev/<root partition>
5. mkfs.vfat -F32 /dev/<boot partition>

mount your disk

1. mount /dev/<root partition> /mnt
2. mkdir /mnt/boot
3. mount /dev/<boot partition> /mnt/boot

generate config

sudo nixos-generate-config --root /mnt nvim /mnt/etc/nixos/configuration.nix nvim /mnt/etc/nixos/hardware-configuration.nix

install

sudo nixos-install