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docs: hint to stop NetworkManager during installation to manually configure the network

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Luca Bruno 2014-11-02 23:41:01 +01:00
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<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: