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author | Dzmitry Malyshau <kvark@fastmail.com> | 2021-10-13 15:41:50 -0400 |
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committer | Dzmitry Malyshau <kvark@fastmail.com> | 2021-10-18 09:25:48 -0400 |
commit | e7898e1226ecf1107f7268674bc3f68af0f3f689 (patch) | |
tree | 4a69ffcc343ea4d418443882e53ae5971db99c10 /nixos/doc/manual/installation/installing.chapter.md | |
parent | af764f652799e2f01383fe1a33935817e38eaa4e (diff) | |
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Add command to switch to root
Installation guide assumed you are root but didn't explain how to get there. And it's not obvious.
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diff --git a/nixos/doc/manual/installation/installing.chapter.md b/nixos/doc/manual/installation/installing.chapter.md index a0823b51e9c..def4f37fbca 100644 --- a/nixos/doc/manual/installation/installing.chapter.md +++ b/nixos/doc/manual/installation/installing.chapter.md @@ -15,7 +15,10 @@ finished booting, it should have detected most of your hardware. The NixOS manual is available by running `nixos-help`. You are logged-in automatically as `nixos`. The `nixos` user account has -an empty password so you can use `sudo` without a password. +an empty password so you can use `sudo` without a password: +```ShellSession +$ sudo -i +``` If you downloaded the graphical ISO image, you can run `systemctl start display-manager` to start the desktop environment. If you want |