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| author | Luca Bruno <lucabru@src.gnome.org> | 2014-11-02 23:41:01 +0100 |
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| committer | Luca Bruno <lucabru@src.gnome.org> | 2014-11-02 23:42:17 +0100 |
| commit | 7dbf4d73c7f21714ca41af268e21019eaf06ccfd (patch) | |
| tree | 465e6e5240ed98c4af1382ef2d1e5f74a47ad9d2 /nixos/doc | |
| parent | 6bb278659f4670107e0445d7ed258e88fb1c4801 (diff) | |
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docs: hint to stop NetworkManager during installation to manually configure the network
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| -rw-r--r-- | nixos/doc/manual/installation/installing.xml | 19 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/nixos/doc/manual/installation/installing.xml b/nixos/doc/manual/installation/installing.xml index b140c56fbee..dd1acba2168 100644 --- a/nixos/doc/manual/installation/installing.xml +++ b/nixos/doc/manual/installation/installing.xml @@ -11,14 +11,9 @@ <listitem><para>Boot from the CD.</para></listitem> <listitem><para>The CD contains a basic NixOS installation. (It - also contains Memtest86+, useful if you want to test new hardware.) + also contains Memtest86+, useful if you want to test new hardware). When it’s finished booting, it should have detected most of your - hardware and brought up networking (check - <command>ifconfig</command>). Networking is necessary for the - installer, since it will download lots of stuff (such as source - tarballs or Nixpkgs channel binaries). It’s best if you have a DHCP - server on your network. Otherwise configure networking manually - using <command>ifconfig</command>.</para></listitem> + hardware.</para></listitem> <listitem><para>The NixOS manual is available on virtual console 8 (press Alt+F8 to access).</para></listitem> @@ -29,6 +24,16 @@ <listitem><para>If you downloaded the graphical ISO image, you can run <command>start display-manager</command> to start KDE.</para></listitem> + <listitem><para>The boot process should have brought up networking (check + <command>ifconfig</command>). Networking is necessary for the + installer, since it will download lots of stuff (such as source + tarballs or Nixpkgs channel binaries). It’s best if you have a DHCP + server on your network. Otherwise configure networking manually + using <command>ifconfig</command>.</para> + <para>To manually configure the network on the graphical installer, + first disable NetworkManager with + <command>stop NetworkManager</command>.</para></listitem> + <listitem><para>The NixOS installer doesn’t do any partitioning or formatting yet, so you need to that yourself. Use the following commands: |