#! /usr/bin/env bash # Script to install NixOS from the Hetzner Cloud NixOS bootable ISO image. # (tested with Hetzner's `NixOS 20.03 (amd64/minimal)` ISO image). # # This script wipes the disk of the server! # # Instructions: # # 1. Mount the above mentioned ISO image from the Hetzner Cloud GUI # and reboot the server into it; do not run the default system (e.g. Ubuntu). # 2. To be able to SSH straight in (recommended), you must replace hardcoded pubkey # further down in the section labelled "Replace this by your SSH pubkey" by you own, # and host the modified script way under a URL of your choosing # (e.g. gist.github.com with git.io as URL shortener service). # 3. Run on the server: # # # Replace this URL by your own that has your pubkey in # curl -L https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nix-community/nixos-install-scripts/master/hosters/hetzner-cloud/nixos-install-hetzner-cloud.sh | sudo bash # # This will install NixOS and power off the server. # 4. Unmount the ISO image from the Hetzner Cloud GUI. # 5. Turn the server back on from the Hetzner Cloud GUI. # # To run it from the Hetzner Cloud web terminal without typing it down, # you can either select it and then middle-click onto the web terminal, (that pastes # to it), or use `xdotool` (you have e.g. 3 seconds to focus the window): # # sleep 3 && xdotool type --delay 50 'curl YOUR_URL_HERE | sudo bash' # # (In the xdotool invocation you may have to replace chars so that # the right chars appear on the US-English keyboard.) # # If you do not replace the pubkey, you'll be running with my pubkey, but you can # change it afterwards by logging in via the Hetzner Cloud web terminal as `root` # with empty password. set -e # Hetzner Cloud OS images grow the root partition to the size of the local # disk on first boot. In case the NixOS live ISO is booted immediately on # first powerup, that does not happen. Thus we need to grow the partition # by deleting and re-creating it. sgdisk -d 1 /dev/sda sgdisk -N 1 /dev/sda partprobe /dev/sda mkfs.ext4 -F /dev/sda1 # wipes all data! mount /dev/sda1 /mnt nixos-generate-config --root /mnt # Delete trailing `}` from `configuration.nix` so that we can append more to it. sed -i -E 's:^\}\s*$::g' /mnt/etc/nixos/configuration.nix # Extend/override default `configuration.nix`: echo ' boot.loader.grub.devices = [ "/dev/sda" ]; # Initial empty root password for easy login: users.users.root.initialHashedPassword = ""; services.openssh.permitRootLogin = "prohibit-password"; services.openssh.enable = true; users.users.root.openssh.authorizedKeys.keys = [ # Replace this by your SSH pubkey! "ssh-rsa AAAAAAAAAAA..." ]; } ' >> /mnt/etc/nixos/configuration.nix nixos-install --no-root-passwd poweroff