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NixOS configuration for NAS server "chopper"

This repository is for development of the NixOS configuration of my NAS server.

Hardware

This is intended to run on a RockPro64 with two 40TB HDDs as storage and a 64GB MicroSD card as boot and OS.

Goals

Zeroth milestone

SSH daemon
User who can act as a local admin

First milestone

ZFS set up on the HDDs
Plex media server

Second milestone

Samba for easy file access from Windows
NFS for easy file access from Linux

Third milestone

Torrent client web control interface available over LAN
Torrent client downloads over VPN

Building

To build the SD image:

# building the NixOS portions
nix build .#nixosConfigurations.chopper.config.system.build.sdImage
cp result/sd-image/*.zst . # note it will be write-protected
nix-shell -p zstd --run "unzstd *.zst"
sudo dd if=$(echo -n *img) of=/dev/sda status=progress bs=4096
# build uboot
nix-build '<nixpkgs>' --argstr system aarch64-linux -A ubootRockPro64 --out-link ubootRockPro64
sudo dd if=ubootRockPro64/idbloader.img of=/dev/sda conv=fsync,notrunc bs=512 seek=64
sudo dd if=ubootRockPro64/u-boot.itb of=/dev/sda conv=fsync,notrunc bs=512 seek=16384

Further instructions can be found on these pages:

NixOS Wiki/NixOS on ARM/PINE64 RockPro64 NixOS Wiki/NixOS on ARM/Installation Pine64/RockPro64/Installing Arch Linux ARM

Notes

Building boot thing

nix-build '<nixpkgs/nixos>' -A config.system.build.sdImage -I nixos-config=./sd-image.nix --argstr system aarch64-linux
cp result/sd-image/*.zst .
nix-shell -p zstd --run "unzstd *.zst"
sudo dd if=*.image of=/dev/sda status=progress bs=4096

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