My personal bootstrap process

For bootstraping on legacy operating systems

Bootstrap dotfiles when having nix

$ nix run github:Mic92/dotfiles

Boostrap homeshick without nix

$ nix-shell -p git
nix-shell> git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/andsens/homeshick.git $HOME/.homesick/repos/homeshick
nix-shell> alias homeshick="$HOME/.homesick/repos/homeshick/bin/homeshick"
nix-shell> homeshick clone https://github.com/Mic92/dotfiles.git

Boostrap single user nix:

$ install -d -m755 -o joerg -g joerg /nix
$ curl https://nixos.org/nix/install | sh

Boostrap multi-user nix:

$ curl https://nixos.org/nix/install -o install
$ sh ./install --daemon

Boostrap home-manager

$ hm switch

Articles about my dotfile repo

• Explains basic structure: https://samleathers.com/posts/2022-02-03-my-new-network-and-deploy-rs.html

Need help with nix?

Drop me an email at [email protected] to book consultation on Nix/NixOS/DevOps related topics