The NixOS Installer

This installer is named after my doggo Onyxia.

At the core of this installer it does the following:

• Partition the drive of your choice
• Installs a base of NixOS (configuration.nix)
• Installs Plasma (plasma.nix)
• Installs needed packages (programs.nix)

Nix files:

• configuration.nix : This is the main file for the base system including some applications that I use
• plasma.nix : This file is for the desktop, login manager and other KDE applications
• programs.nix : This file adds applications like Slack, Discord and virt-manager including turning on the services

Plasma files:

• configs/kwinrc : This has my setting for the Super key (Meta in Plasma) behavior
• configs/kglobalshortcutsrc : This has window control shortcuts like moving between Workspaces (Desktops in Plasma)

Tested on the following drives:

• SATA
• NVMe

This sets the hashedPassword to my own so you will need to update it to match your own as well as the username. I created the hash with this command:

sudo mkpasswd -m sha-512

Get Started

Prerequisites:

• Prepare an installation medium.
• Boot the live environment.
• Connect to internet.

Connect to internet

https://nixos.org/manual/nixos/stable/index.html#sec-installation-booting-networking

Start the installer

curl https://gitlab.com/ahoneybun/nyxi-installer/-/raw/main/install.sh > install.sh; sh install.sh

The following will happen:

• Clear partition table for /dev/***.
• Creates a GPT partition table for /dev/***.
• Create a +512M EFI partiton at /dev/***1.
• Create a encrypted LVM at /dev/***2.
• Create a swap partition in the LVM and sets it as the same size as the RAM for hibernation if requested.
• Create a root partition in the LVM.
• Install systemd-boot.

Roadmap

• Change KWin shortcuts (Workspace changing)
• Change KRunner shortcut (User Super key [Meta] instead)

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