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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>Boot from the CD.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>The CD contains a basic NixOS installation. (It <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 When it’s finished booting, it should have detected most of your
hardware and brought up networking (check hardware.</para></listitem>
<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>
<listitem><para>The NixOS manual is available on virtual console 8 <listitem><para>The NixOS manual is available on virtual console 8
(press Alt+F8 to access).</para></listitem> (press Alt+F8 to access).</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>If you downloaded the graphical ISO image, you can <listitem><para>If you downloaded the graphical ISO image, you can
run <command>start display-manager</command> to start KDE.</para></listitem> 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 <listitem><para>The NixOS installer doesn’t do any partitioning or
formatting yet, so you need to that yourself. Use the following formatting yet, so you need to that yourself. Use the following
commands: commands: