diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 1482d71..bc603dd 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -57,11 +57,11 @@ Add a symlink as the global configuration
     sudo mkdir -p /mnt/etc/nixos/
     sudo ln -s /mnt/home/simon/nixos/machines/nunotaba/configuration.nix /mnt/etc/nixos/configuration.nix
 
-Generate hardware configuration and link it to the installation system
-(symlinking required because of absolute paths)
+Generate hardware configuration and copy hardware configuration to machine
+configuration
 
     sudo nixos-generate-config --root /mnt/
-    sudo ln -s /mnt/etc/nixos/hardware-configuration.nix /etc/nixos/hardware-configuration.nix
+    sudo cp /mnt/etc/nixos/hardware-configuration.nix /mnt/home/simon/nixos/machines/nunotaba/hardware-configuration.nix
 
 Install NixOS and reboot (if you do not have another machine, omit
 `--no-root-passwd`)
@@ -74,12 +74,11 @@ didn’t work, first open the luks partition like in the setup script, run `sudo
 vgchange -ay` to scan for LVM VGs and then mount the other filesystems like in
 the script.
 
-SSH into the machine (or login locally if you set a root password), fix the
-`configuration.nix` symlink, set a user password and clone the dotfiles
+SSH into the machine (or login locally if you set a root password), set a user
+password and clone the dotfiles
 
     ssh root@machine
     rm /etc/nixos/configuration.nix
-    ln -s /home/simon/nixos/machines/nunotaba/configuration.nix /etc/nixos/configuration.nix
     passwd simon
     ^D
     ssh simon@machine
diff --git a/machines/nunotaba/configuration.nix b/machines/nunotaba/configuration.nix
index 9276d11..da5a5de 100644
--- a/machines/nunotaba/configuration.nix
+++ b/machines/nunotaba/configuration.nix
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 {
   imports =
     [
-      /etc/nixos/hardware-configuration.nix
+      ./hardware-configuration.nix
       ../../modules/restic.nix
       ../../modules/texlive.nix
       ../../profiles/base.nix
diff --git a/machines/nunotaba/hardware-configuration.nix b/machines/nunotaba/hardware-configuration.nix
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..d637a6f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/machines/nunotaba/hardware-configuration.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+{ config, lib, pkgs, ... }:
+
+{
+  imports =
+    [
+      <nixpkgs/nixos/modules/installer/scan/not-detected.nix>
+    ];
+
+  boot.initrd.availableKernelModules = [ "xhci_pci" "ehci_pci" "ahci" "usb_storage" "usbhid" "sd_mod" "rtsx_pci_sdmmc" ];
+  boot.initrd.kernelModules = [ "dm-snapshot" ];
+  boot.kernelModules = [ "kvm-intel" ];
+  boot.extraModulePackages = [];
+
+  fileSystems."/" =
+    {
+      device = "/dev/disk/by-uuid/8937d1ac-23cb-456f-9c16-e348acc66bb7";
+      fsType = "ext4";
+    };
+
+  fileSystems."/boot" =
+    {
+      device = "/dev/disk/by-uuid/da2e90cc-1e0c-4691-8807-5d2f4858df6e";
+      fsType = "ext2";
+    };
+
+  swapDevices =
+    [
+      { device = "/dev/disk/by-uuid/b9ad2d56-fee0-49df-98c1-00d93d991b9f"; }
+    ];
+
+  nix.maxJobs = lib.mkDefault 4;
+  powerManagement.cpuFreqGovernor = lib.mkDefault "powersave";
+}