polaris

polaris

This is a large bare-metal nixos server with dual rtx a6000s!

bootstrap

# load nixos iso
# nixos-up
sudo nix-shell https://nix.cobi.dev/os-up

# generate ssh key, add to github
ssh-keygen -o -a 100 -t ed25519 -C "jacobi@polaris"

# zfs
wipefs -a /dev/nvme1n1  # extra drive in the nvme riser
sudo zpool create -o ashift=12 -o autotrim=on zroot /dev/nvme1n1
sudo zfs create zroot/box
sudo zfs set compression=lz4 zroot/box
sudo zfs set atime=off zroot/box
sudo zfs set recordsize=128k zroot/box
sudo zfs set mountpoint=/opt/box zroot/box

# clone repo
nix-shell -p git
git clone [email protected]:jpetrucciani/nix.git ~/cfg
cd ~/cfg

# initial switch. after this, you can use just `hms` to update!
$(nix build --no-link --print-out-paths --extra-experimental-features nix-command --extra-experimental-features flakes ~/cfg#hmx.polaris)/bin/switch

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In this directory

configuration.nix

This file defines the OS configuration for the polaris machine.

hardware-configuration.nix

This is an auto-generated file by nixos-up that configures disks and other plugins for nixos.