Deploy Hermes Bootstrap to hardware
deployment-skillskillsetup L4★2
steezkelly/hermes-bootstrap ↗What it does
Deploy NixOS system via USB boot or live installer environment
Best for
When deploying Hermes agents to hardware that requires reproducible NixOS configuration and offline-first bootstrap paths
Inputs
- · target disk path (e.g. /dev/nvme0n1)
- · hermes-bootstrap repository
Outputs
- · deployed NixOS system
- · flake configuration applied
- · system ready for operation
Requires
- · NixOS minimal ISO
- · nix flake
- · nixos-rebuild
Preconditions
- · USB stick or network boot
- · Live disk verified with lsblk
- · Network connectivity in installer
Failure modes
- · SquashFS I/O errors on sustained USB reads
- · WiFi interface name mismatch between machines
- · Ventoy gray screen timeout
- · Network unreachable in NixOS live
Trust signals
- · nixos-enter + nixos-rebuild proven more reliable than nixos-install --flake on live USB
- · Documented failure modes with recovery steps