dotfiles

Manual steps

• Preconfigure: copy an existing setup to machines/$HOSTNAME

• Install NixOS: https://nixos.org/nixos/manual/index.html

  • format flash drive: dd if=$PATH_TO_ISO.iso of=/dev/sda

  • boot with that flash drive

  • You may need to configure WiFi:

    ifconfig wlp3s0 down
    ifconfig wlp3s0 up
    iwconfig wlp3s0 essid ...
    sleep 10 && ping 8.8.8.8  # repeat as needed

  • curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/znewman01/dotfiles/master/scripts/pre_install.sh | bash

  • cd /mnt/persist/zjn/git/dotfiles

  • ./scripts/actual_install.sh from this repo (no dependencies)

  • on reboot:

    • log in as zjn
    • deactivate root password (sudo passwd -l root). then proceed

• Set stuff up

  • Syncthing: http://localhost:8384 on both machines
  • Pass (might need to run repeatedly)
  • Firefox
  • email (mkdir ~/Maildir/{gmail,csail,mit,fastmail,chainguard} && mbsync -a then mu init --my-address=... --my-address=...)
  • GitHub SSH keys, reenable code.nix
  • Tailscale

You're probably going to have to restart Firefox, Emacs a couple of times each until things work. Such is life.

Alternate: auto steps

• Preconfigure
  • copy an existing setup to machines/$HOSTNAME (but comment out import of code.nix!)
  • copy a block in ops/network.nix for the new machine
• Install
  • cd autoinstall && ln -s ../../machines/$HOSTNAME/system.nix configuration.nix && ./build
  • dd if=autoinstall.iso of=/dev/sda
  • boot with that flash drive, watch it install itself
• Post-install
  1. tailscale (which involves logging into google)
  2. syncthing
     • https://localhost:8384
     • add introducer device, accept on it
  3. keys (from a working device)
     • create and fetch ssh-keys

       ssh $NEWDEVICE -- 'ssh-keygen -t ed25519 -f "$HOME/.ssh/id_ed25519" -N ""'
       ssh $NEWDEVICE -- cp ~/.ssh/id_ed25519.pub ~/Sync/keys/${NEWDEVICE}.pub
       cp ~/Sync/keys/${NEWDEVICE}.pub net/${NEWDEVICE}.pub
       sed -i "/\]/i\  ./${NEWDEVICE}.pub" net/keys.nix

     • gpg keys

       ssh $NEWDEVICE -- 'find "$HOME/.gnupg/" -type f -exec chmod 600 {} \;'
       ssh $NEWDEVICE -- 'find "$HOME/.gnupg/" -type d -exec chmod 700 {} \;'
       ssh $NEWDEVICE  # do the GPG stuff in `install.sh`
       FINGERPRINT=$(ssh $NEWDEVICE -- gpg --list-keys | grep "Key fingerprint" | head -n 1 | cut -d= -f2 | sed 's/ //g')
       ssh $NEWDEVICE -- gpg --edit-key $FINGERPRINT  # type in 'passwd<RET>' and then enter password
       ssh $NEWDEVICE "gpg --output $HOME/Sync/keys/${NEWDEVICE}.gpg --export [email protected]"
       gpg --import $HOME/Sync/keys/${NEWDEVICE}.gpg
       echo "${FINGERPRINT}:6" | gpg --import-ownertrust
       echo $FINGERPRINT >> $HOME/.password-store/.gpg-id

  4. pass (on a working device)

     # this will take a while; in the meantime import owner trust on other devices including $NEWDEVICE
     while true; do xargs pass init < $HOME/.password-store/.gpg-id; echo trying again; sleep 1; done

  5. once pass show firefox works log in to Firefox
  6. email (if applicable)
     • mkdir ~/Maildir/{gmail,csail,mit,fastmail,chainguard} && mbsync -a
     • mu init --my-address=... --my-address=...
  7. GitHub SSH keys, pull this repo
  8. update yourself
     • reenable code.nix
     • make sure you have a hardware-configuration.nix
       • nixos-generate-config --show-hardware-config
       • compare with existing