Hardware Profiles

ThinkPad X270

• CPU: Intel i5-6300U
• GPU: Intel Skylake GT2 [HD Graphics 520]
• RAM: 32GB

HP ProBook 440 G8 PC/8A74

• CPU: Intel i7-1165G7
• GPU: Intel TigerLake-LP GT2 [Iris Xe Graphics]
• RAM: 16GB

Custom CPU Hardware

• CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D
• GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti TWIN EDGE 16GB GDDR6 DLSS3
• PSU: Forgeon Bolt PSU 850W 80+ Gold Full Modular
• Cooling System: Corsair iCUE H100i RGB ELITE 240mm
• Chassis: Corsair iCUE 4000D RGB AIRFLOW USB 3.2
• Motherboard: ASUS TUF GAMING X870-PLUS WIFI
• RAM: Corsair Vengeance DDR5 6400MHz 64GB (2x32GB CL32)
• Storage: WD Black SN850X 2TB NVMe PCIe 4.0 M.2 Gen4 16GT/s
• Keyboard/Mouse: Logitech MK295

Setup Guide

1. Format the USB drive with the latest nixOS minimal setup sudo cp nixos-minimal*.iso /dev/sdX
2. You should restart the computer, enter the BIOS/UEFI, and boot from the USB.
3. Init network
   • Wireless mode
     1. Check your Wireless NIC: ip addr |grep 'wl' (for me wlp3s0).
     2. Set password file: wpa_passphrase WLAN_XXX SDflsñdjfp3ur > wireless.config
     3. Stablish connection: sudo wpa_supplicant -i wlp3s0 -c wireless.config &
   • Ethernet (plug-in for DHCP).
4. Create a partition disk, and partitions, in my case / and /boot. I don't need more.

   sudo fdisk /dev/nvme0n1
   sudo mkfs.fat -F 32 /dev/nvme0n1p1
   sudo cryptsetup luksFormat /dev/nvme0n1p2
   sudo cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/nvme0n1p2 nix-root
   sudo mkfs.ext4 /dev/mapper/nixos-root

5. Mounting filesystems

   sudo mount /dev/mapper/nixos-root /mnt
   sudo mkdir /mnt/boot
   sudo mount /dev/nvme0n1p1 /mnt/boot

6. Generate nixos configuration to get partition scheme sudo nixos-generate-config --root /mnt/
7. Copy hardware-configuration.nix in /home/nixos. cp /mnt/etc/nixos/hardware-configuration.nix $HOME
8. Remove the files in /mnt/etc/nixos sudo rm -rf /mnt/etc/nixos
9. Clone the repository

   nix-shell -p git
   sudo git clone https://github.com/sincorchetes/nixos-flake-hardware-profiles /mnt/etc/nixos

10. Get the partition's ID from /home/nixos/hardware-configuration.nix and replace it in machine/partitions.nix and machine/boot.nix files.
11. Enable flakes: export NIX_CONFIG="extra-experimental-features = nix-command flakes"
12. Setup the system: sudo nixos-install --flake /mnt/etc/nixos#thinkpad0
13. Set the root password and reboot the system