tag:Nixos-Anywhere

Background Be Careful Make sure if you follow this guide you could lose your data. Make sure to back up whatever important data you have. Or do what I did and test this on a new device where it doesn’t matter if something goes wrong. But don’t try to do this on a machine that has important data, or you need to use day to day. Though I was able to set up a new laptop in about 20 mins once I got everything working. It can be fiddly. ...

I wanted to do a short article showing you how you can use your Nix config to install NixOS on a new device. Have your device setup with NixOS in a few commands with all the packages and tooling you want. Previously I was creating my own ISO and then burning that to a USB and using that USB as live media to install my config. I had a custom script nix_installer, which would run automatically when you loaded into the gnome shell. ...