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Reduces chance of users not noticing that without unmounting the image, they'll boot back into the NixOS installer.
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Instructions
- Create a server with any distribution (Ubuntu for example) from the Hetzner UI.
- In your server options on the Hetzner UI click on
Mount image. Find the NixOS image and mount it. Reboot the server into it. - You won't be able to ssh into your server. You will have to do the following steps by logging in with the Hetzner UI.
- On the top right of the server details click on the icon
>_. - Fork this repo and replace your SSH public key in the script. For exapmle, make a commit on a new branch.
- Get the URL of the script you created (might look like
https://raw.github.com/YOUR_USER_NAME/nixos-install-scripts/YOUR_BRANCH_NAME/hosters/hetzner-cloud/nixos-install-hetzner-cloud.sh). - Paste the following command into your console gui
curl -L YOUR_URL | sudo bash. This will install NixOS and turn the server off.
- On the top right of the server details click on the icon
- In your server options on the Hetzner UI click on
Unmount, and turn the server back on using the big power-switch button in the top right. - On your own computer you can now ssh into the newly created machine.
Troubleshooting
SSH WARNING: REMOTE HOST IDENTIFICATION HAS CHANGED!
if you have already ssh-ed into your server before installing NixOS, you will have to remove the server from your .know-hosts file. Open the file (located in your .ssh directory) and delete the entry corresponding to the server.
Curl 404 error
if you copy and paste a url from the Hetzner console GUI, some characters can get replaced (If you are using an English/US keyboard layout for example). Just replace the offending characters (check the punctuation especially, @:_ and the likes).