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nixos-remote - install nixos everywhere via ssh
nixos-remote makes it possible to install nixos from Linux machines reachable via ssh. Under the hood uses a kexec image to boot into a NixOS installer from a running Linux system. It then uses disko to partition and format the disks on the target system before it installs the user provided nixos configuration.
Requirements
- x86_64 Linux system with kexec support (most x86_64 machine do have kexec support)
- At least 2.5GB RAM (swap does not count). If you do not have enough RAM you will see failures unpacking the initrd), this is because kexec needs to load the whole nixos into memory.
Usage
Needs a repo with your configurations with flakes. For a minimal example checkout https://github.com/Lassulus/flakes-testing.
Your NixOS configuration will also need a disko configuration as we can see in our example
Afterwards you can just run:
./nixos-remote root@yourip --flake github:your-user/your-repo#your-system
The parameter passed to --flake
should point to your nixos configuration
exposed in your flake (nixosConfigurations.your-system
in the example above).