nix-config/hosts/helios

Helios

Overview

Dell OptiPlex 980 small form factor desktop.

Specs

• CPU - Intel Core i7-860 @ 2.8GHz
• Chipset - Intel Q57 Express
• Memory - 8 GB DDR2
• GPU - AMD FirePro 2460
• NIC - Intel Gigabit 82578DM

Disks

Device	Partitions (filesystem, size, usage)
SanDisk Ultra II	/dev/sda1 (ext2, 200 MiB, NixOS Boot) /dev/sda2 (ZFS, 480 GiB, NixOS Root)

Note: The BIOS firmware on this machine only supports booting from disks with an MBR partition table.

ZFS pool layout

rpool/
├── local
│   ├── nix
│   └── tmp
├── system
│   ├── root
│   └── var
└── user
    └── home

See Graham Christensen's article for the motivation behind these datasets.

Networks

• DHCP on 192.168.1.0/24 subnet.
• Tailscale on 100.64.0.0/10 subnet. FQDN: helios.mesh.vimium.net.