From 56be97690f888a8ad43fd698d7b13773ba40457f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Timothy DeHerrera <tim.deh@pm.me>
Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2020 13:04:32 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] README.md: expand on quick setup details

---
 README.md        | 14 +++++++++++++-
 hosts/NixOS.nix  | 11 ++++++++++-
 hosts/niximg.nix |  3 ++-
 3 files changed, 25 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index ec47e1eb..9fc20087 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -20,7 +20,19 @@ git checkout -b $new_branch template
 # generate hardware config
 nixos-generate-config --show-hardware-config > ./hosts/${new_host}.nix
 
-# ensure configuration lives in expected location
+# Edit the new file, removing `not-deteced.nix` from the imports.
+# In order to maintain purity flakes cannot resolve from the NIX_PATH.
+# You may also want to import ./hosts/NixOS.nix from here which sets up
+# an efi bootloader, enables Network Manager and sets an empty root password.
+# Otherwise you'll need to set the bootloader, network and password yourself.
+
+# Also ensure your file systems are set the way you want. And import
+# any ./profiles you may wish to try out.
+$EDITOR ./hosts/${new_host}.nix
+
+
+# backup existing config and ensure configuration lives in expected location
+mv /etc/nixos /etc/nixos.old
 ln -s $PWD /etc/nixos
 
 # a flake is vcs based, so only git aware files are bundled
diff --git a/hosts/NixOS.nix b/hosts/NixOS.nix
index 71cfa211..c933bcb2 100644
--- a/hosts/NixOS.nix
+++ b/hosts/NixOS.nix
@@ -1 +1,10 @@
-{ imports = [ ../profiles/develop ]; }
+{
+  imports = [ ];
+
+  # Use the systemd-boot EFI boot loader.
+  boot.loader.systemd-boot.enable = true;
+  boot.loader.efi.canTouchEfiVariables = true;
+
+  networking.networkmanager.enable = true;
+  users.users.root.password = "";
+}
diff --git a/hosts/niximg.nix b/hosts/niximg.nix
index e4229abe..ba934340 100644
--- a/hosts/niximg.nix
+++ b/hosts/niximg.nix
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 { modulesPath, ... }: {
-  imports = [ ./NixOS.nix "${modulesPath}/installer/cd-dvd/iso-image.nix" ];
+  imports =
+    [ ../profiles/develop "${modulesPath}/installer/cd-dvd/iso-image.nix" ];
 
   isoImage.makeEfiBootable = true;
   isoImage.makeUsbBootable = true;