blog: nixos/pinephone: outline the bootstrapping process

content/blog/2022-05-20-mobile-nixos-pinephone.md

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+step 1: provision a nix machine
+
+step 2: convert to a flake
+
+step 3: install jumpdrive to a sd card
+
+step 4: build and flash a minimal mobile-nixos
+```sh
+$ sudo umount /dev/sdb* ; sudo dd if=/nix/store/l9na29kg38crkzhjf6ms3vviqhi2cbc5-pine64-pinephone_full-disk-image.img of=/dev/sdb bs=1M status=progress
+```
+
+step 5: add gnome and re-flash; connect to wifi  (`nmcli connect wifi <wifiname> <password>`)
+
+step 6: ssh into the machine. resize the parts, and clone/rebuild config (better to do this from PC?)
+
+TODO: resizing the parts like this makes the device unbootable (doesn't seem to even reach the eMMC bootloader!). 
+maybe it destroys whatever data is at fixed offset.
+try tow-boot?
+
+```sh
+$ sudo parted /dev/sdb
+GNU Parted 3.4
+Using /dev/sdb
+Welcome to GNU Parted! Type 'help' to view a list of commands.
+(parted) resizepart
+Warning: Not all of the space available to /dev/sdb appears to be used, you can fix the GPT to use all of the space (an extra 41217660 blocks) or continue with the current setting?
+Fix/Ignore? Fix
+Partition number? 4
+End?  [10.0GB]? 31GB
+(parted) quit
+$ sudo resize2fs /dev/sdb4
+```
+
+then disconnect the device and boot it
+
+```
+$ git clone https://git.uninsane.org/colin/nix-files.git
+$ sudo rm /etc/nixos && mv nix-files /etc/nixos
+$ cd /etc/nixos
+$ sudo nixos-rebuild --flake "./#moby" switch  # XXX: check /etc/fstab for compatibility first?
+```
+
 resources:
 [NixOS from a working install](https://git.sr.ht/~tomf/notes/tree/master/item/pinephone-nixos-getting-started.md)
   configuration is from a mobile-nixos local.nix repo. workable (leverages the hydra cache), but unclear how one would configure this after install (flake support?)