From 978121c75e9737b285ddfbc40bdf67e8ae5e73f5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Petru Paler <petru@paler.net>
Date: Mon, 5 Aug 2024 06:27:02 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Instructions for setting up a new host.

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 setup-host.txt | 11 +++++++++++
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 setup-host.txt

diff --git a/setup-host.txt b/setup-host.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..4eb43ce
--- /dev/null
+++ b/setup-host.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+* boot target from NixOS installer USB
+* passwd for nixos user on target
+* note IP address, test that ssh as nixos works
+* on target: nixos-generate-config --no-filesystems, copy to base host
+* on target: dd if=/dev/random of=/dev/disk/by-id/<usb drive for encryption key> bs=4096 count=1
+* on target: dd if=/dev/disk/by-id/<usb drive for encryption key> of=key.bin bs=4096 count=1
+* copy key.bin to hosts/<target>/
+* use the generated config to create new config in hosts/<target>
+* set the actual device IDs in hosts/<target>/disk-config.nix
+* on base host: nix run github:nix-community/nixos-anywhere -- --flake '.#<target>' nixos@<target IP>
+* after confirmed working, update hosts/<target>disk-config.nix to set keyFile to /dev/sdX (otherwise when the USB drive fails it's harder to replace)