Srid (Dec 09 2023 at 13:37): Srid (Dec 09 2023 at 13:37):Zapier said:
flake-parts system config + hm
Date: 2023-12-08T07:33:48+00:00
Link: https://old.reddit.com/r/NixOS/comments/18dhmb5/flakeparts_system_config_hm/Is there a step-by-step tutorial on how to use flake-parts for system configuration (ideally with home-manager)? The documentation is too abstract for me.
The published repos on github of people using flake-parts all look very different, and I cannot comprehend why they do things different.
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Srid (Dec 09 2023 at 18:46):Just a skeleton for now: https://nixos.asia/en/nixos
Srid (Dec 10 2023 at 00:44):First attempt: https://github.com/nixos-asia/website/pull/12
Srid (Dec 10 2023 at 01:03):Feedback on this ^ welcome. Planning to publish tomorrow.
Srid (Dec 11 2023 at 13:29):First tutorial :right: https://nixos.asia/en/tutorial/nixos-install
Srid (Dec 12 2023 at 14:39):@Shivaraj B H
I propose that we repurpose this blog post into a general tutorial that complements our first one.
To give an idea of the 'larger scheme':
Shivaraj B H (Dec 12 2023 at 14:47):I think likewise, I was having second thoughts about publishing the above mentioned post primarily because this minimal configuration was way too specific for the device we are using.
Shivaraj B H (Dec 12 2023 at 14:48):There is actually a third way of installing as well that can compliment the first tutorial you had written: Disko to partition your disk and Nixos-install —flake to install the OS
Srid (Dec 12 2023 at 14:48):Let's do it. You can rewrite it such that it achieves the same goal of first tutorial (nixos deployed with flakes enabled and config in git), but nearly automated.
Yea, I assume we would be using disko for tutorial 2?
Srid (Dec 12 2023 at 14:49):Also, screenshots are plenty useful. I liberally take screenshots and put them in Google photos. I think I took like 15 screenshots for first post, and ended up using 2 or 3 of them.
Shivaraj B H (Dec 12 2023 at 14:50):Yes we will be using disko combined with nixos-anywhere but there can also be a scenario where nixos-anywhere is not an option, like the situation I am facing now (no wired Ethernet), what if I still want to maintain my partitioning scheme in nix
Shivaraj B H (Dec 12 2023 at 14:51):I tried this out as an experiment, it does work, I will do it again and take screenshots while I am at it
Srid (Dec 12 2023 at 14:56):This would be manual (not graphical) install + disko + nixos-install --flake? Yes, a tutorial on that would be great as well!
Srid (Dec 12 2023 at 14:56):Let's do that one next, actually. nixos-anywhere can come latter if necessary
Srid (Dec 12 2023 at 14:57):Then, we can say: "here are 3 ways to install NixOS" - each progressively more automated.
Srid (Dec 12 2023 at 14:57):I will do it again and take screenshots while I am at it
Try it on VM, better for screenshots. I used Parallels (could be VirtualBox) running aarch64-linux.
Shivaraj B H (Dec 12 2023 at 15:02):Great, sounds good
Srid (Dec 15 2023 at 18:17):Source for some ideas
Note what George says at some point: “I am interested in being able to use Nix to quickly deploy cloud instances.”
So wouldn’t it be great if we had documentation for that use case?
--APCodes (who is looking to join their documentation team)
(Not recommending that we read the rest of the thread which appears to be idle debate that goes nowhere)
Shivaraj B H (Dec 20 2023 at 09:58):I was considering to explore https://github.com/nixos/nixos-hardware for the final automated tutorial of this series
Srid (Feb 20 2024 at 12:07):Srid said:
First tutorial :right: https://nixos.asia/en/tutorial/nixos-install
Second tutorial using disko, written by @Shivaraj B H :right: https://nixos.asia/en/nixos-install-disko
Srid (Feb 20 2024 at 21:42):@Shivaraj B H I just tried nixos-anywhere to install a flake on a VM.
I couldn't find a rescue image for arm linux, so I just booted into the NixOS installer. And then setup its root user for ssh'ing:
# from installer booted machine, set a root password
sudo passwd root
# from macos
ssh-copy-id -o PreferredAuthentications=password [email protected]
# then install the flake
nix run github:nix-community/nixos-anywhere -- --build-on-remote --flake .#here [email protected]
Since the core 'steps' are small, I suppose a large part of our 3rd tutorial should focus on getting it working right when deploying from macOS or Linux. I also noticed that when the configuration included packages like nixvim, nixos-anywhere fails to remotely build it.
Shivaraj B H (Feb 21 2024 at 06:25):What does it fail with while trying to build packages like nixvim?
Srid (Feb 21 2024 at 10:58):It was more along the lines of,
a 'aarch64-linux' with features {} is required to build '/nix/store/ziz2sfr9h5w1sss2w2bzhjf4vl2g314g-source.drv', but I am a 'aarch64-darwin' with features {benchmark, big-parallel, kvm, nixos-test}
Since the core 'steps' are small, I suppose a large part of our 3rd tutorial should focus on getting it working right when deploying from macOS or Linux.
And it may also include nix-dev-home automatically? Then we can point Linux users in our company directly to this tutorial.
Srid (Feb 21 2024 at 19:53):Srid said:
It was more along the lines of,
a 'aarch64-linux' with features {} is required to build '/nix/store/ziz2sfr9h5w1sss2w2bzhjf4vl2g314g-source.drv', but I am a 'aarch64-darwin' with features {benchmark, big-parallel, kvm, nixos-test}
Related: https://github.com/zhaofengli/colmena/issues/178
Srid (Mar 26 2024 at 12:22):disko-installhttps://github.com/nix-community/disko/pull/548
https://tinkering.xyz/installing-nixos/
Notification Bot (Mar 26 2024 at 12:45):3 messages were moved from this topic to #nixos > disko-install by Srid.
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