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rnhmjoj bc62423a87
nixos/doc: convert loaOf options refs to attrsOf 2020-09-02 00:42:51 +02:00
Linus Heckemann a5d20d25eb
Merge pull request #88669 from Mic92/hidpi
nixos/hidpi: Reasonable defaults for high-density displays
2020-07-22 17:43:03 +02:00
Konrad Förstner 7ec38adfdc nixos/doc/manual: Fix parted's set subcommand for esp partition
With 'set 3 boot on' the error 'file system "/boot" is not a FAT EFI
system partition (ESP) file system' occurs when running
"nixos-install" during the basic installation (tested in in a
VirtualBox VM).
2020-07-02 08:40:01 +02:00
Jörg Thalheim b6a1dc51d0
nixos/installer: suggest to load v32n instead if i32n
v32n has more characters.
2020-05-25 09:24:50 +01:00
jakobrs 34f242c13d nixos/installer: Add terminus_font to installation_iso_base 2020-04-15 14:21:42 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra aebf9a4709
services/misc/nixos-manual.nix: Remove
Running the manual on a TTY is useless in the graphical ISOs and not
particularly useful in non-graphical ISOs (since you can also run
'nixos-help').

Fixes #83157.
2020-03-24 15:25:20 +01:00
Mateusz Piotrowski b7c217328e Fix a typo 2019-12-10 19:26:27 -08:00
Arnout Engelen 89ed88f86f Spell out you need to enable wifi explicitly at install time 2019-12-02 17:50:22 +01:00
Robin Gloster 844625708e
nixos/manual: reword installation section
Sounded a bit unprofessional and pessimistic. Was actually called out on
twitter.
2019-11-20 10:30:49 +01:00
wodim c5daa2cb3b
Fix typo 2019-10-09 20:42:36 +02:00
Vladimír Čunát f760f0ef48
Revert "Merge #67232: machinectl compliant NixOS installation"
This reverts commit 66967ec752, reversing
changes made to fb6595eafd.
Fixes #70442; discussion: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/70027
2019-10-07 20:56:59 +02:00
Christian Kögler ba37b3c622
nixos: added installation doc for nspawn container 2019-09-13 17:33:38 +02:00
SRGOM c17e66afe4
nixos.manual.installation.installing: nixos-hw
Fixed repo name gh:nixos/nixos-hardware
2019-09-10 23:04:00 +05:30
SRGOM 5d08759f97
nixos.manual.installation.installing: nixos-hw
Add a brief note about nixos-hardware repo because it is in the official nixos organization. (and seemingly useful...)
2019-09-03 00:41:20 -06:00
Symphorien Gibol c3e1e64e4c remove all instances of nix-env -i without -A in the NixOS manual
motivation: https://nixos.wiki/wiki/FAQ/Why_not_use_nix-env_-i_foo%3F
2019-08-17 18:04:43 +02:00
worldofpeace 397c7d26fc installer: Don't run as root
There's many reason why it is and is going to
continue to be difficult to do this:

1. All display-managers (excluding slim) default PAM rules
   disallow root auto login.

2. We can't use wayland

3. We have to use system-wide pulseaudio

4. It could break applications in the session.
   This happened to dolphin in plasma5
   in the past.

This is a growing technical debt, let's just use
passwordless sudo.
2019-08-12 14:45:27 -04:00
Jan Tojnar a3f2131eb6 doc: Use prompt more often 2019-06-17 13:25:50 +02:00
Jan Tojnar 11cb382a4c
nixos/doc: Fix spurious indentation 2019-06-17 12:28:26 +02:00
Jörg Thalheim b488c60cdb network-manager: rename systemd service back to match upstream
Compatibility with other distributions/software and expectation
of users coming from other systems should have higher priority over consistency.
In particular this fixes #51375, where the NetworkManager-wait-online.service
broke as a result of this.
2019-03-19 23:48:08 +01:00
matix2267 6ab2aea003 nixos/doc: Small updates about wireless configuration. (#55918)
* Reference networking section from installation
* Add info about pskRaw option in networking.wireless.networks
2019-03-05 04:27:15 +02:00
Samuel Dionne-Riel 467bec34bb nixos/doc: Actually fix partitioning instructions.
The previous tentative to the fix got the order mixed up a bit. This
new fix has been re-verified to get them in the good order as per the
instructions in the following chapters.
2018-10-08 12:35:04 -04:00
Samuel Dionne-Riel 6cfbf403ca doc: Reviews partitioning instructions to use parted.
The tests in <nixos/tests/installer.nix> are using `parted`, so they are
bound to be better tested than `fdisk`.

This is brought on by a couple issues, plus reports on IRC that the
`fdisk` instructions didn't work as expected.

 * #39354
 * #46309
 * #39942
 * #45478

Care was taken so that the other documented steps did not need changes.

In all this kerfufle, a slight re-organization of the Chapter has been
made, allowing better deep linking.
2018-10-03 22:34:58 -04:00
Graham Christensen 8413f22bb3
docs: format 2018-09-29 20:51:11 -04:00
Venkateswara Rao Mandela cb1ca42009 nixos/doc: add instructions for installation behind a proxy (#45854)
The instructions to install nixos behind a proxy were not clear. While
one could guess that setting http_proxy variables can get the install
rolling, one could end up with an installed system where the proxy
settings for the nix-daemon are not configured.

This commit updates the documentation with

1. steps to install behind a proxy

2. configure the global proxy settings so that nix-daemon can access
internet.

3. Pointers to use nesting.clone in case one has to use different proxy
settings on different networks.
2018-09-01 16:12:35 +02:00
Sarah Brofeldt 05d85a267f nixos/doc: New installer note on unattended installs 2018-08-19 19:54:10 +02:00
Samuel Dionne-Riel 88ca2b1ec4 nixos/doc: ran make format
With visual inspection that nothing got worse.
2018-05-31 21:03:51 -04:00
Graham Christensen eca5c99bf8
nixos docs: format =) 2018-05-01 19:57:09 -04:00
Graham Christensen d1165dba99
Merge pull request #38831 from rdnetto/improve-cross-refs
Improve cross referencing in NixOS Manual
2018-04-30 21:30:20 -04:00
Christian Kauhaus bca80d67a0 Clarify installation steps w.r.t. disk partitions
- mkfs.fat needs `-n` to set a partition label, not `-L`.
- create /mnt/boot before mounting
- leave out detailed LVM example as advanced users already how to create
  LVs while it is detracting for novices.

Re #38674
2018-04-17 14:29:07 +02:00
Reuben D'Netto 7292c5a570 Fixed indentation 2018-04-17 09:19:55 +10:00
Reuben D'Netto 42a84598fb Added cross-references to NixOS manual 2018-04-12 09:39:14 +10:00
obadz 7af0aa846e nixos doc: document the installation process from other distros as well as NIXOS_LUSTRATE 2018-03-04 16:19:52 +00:00
Ben Creasy 385369eeb2 nixos/doc: document password-promptless installation (#35210) 2018-02-20 08:59:13 +00:00
Matthieu Coudron 8b9429008e doc: add wpa_supplicant command to connect to wifi
New thin laptops don't have an ethernet port and so rely on wifi to get
access. With the minimal installer, setup wpa_supplicant can be hard if
it is the first time so here we provide an example.
2018-01-22 11:54:17 +09:00
Dave Laing 0cf74190a9 nixos manual: Adds some examples of how to use fdisk.
Also unifies the BIOS and UEFI installation instructions.

It's a fairly basic usage, but it makes explicity the fact that
you should at least have a main partition and a swap partition,
and will save some users a bit of internet searching while they
are getting set up.
2017-11-01 13:48:09 +10:00
Samuel Leathers 8a77a30bc1 install documentation: document boot.loader.grub.useOSProber 2017-10-29 14:27:21 +01:00
Linus Heckemann 0ddc8a303b nixos manual: suggest nixos-help as well
Part of improving #30760: users on a serial console can't switch ttys,
so providing another method to access the manual is useful.
2017-10-25 10:16:15 +01:00
aszlig d01b9493c9
nixos/doc/installing: Fix typo in <literal/>
The tag wasn't properly closed which caused the manual build to fail.

Tested with: nix-build nixos/release.nix -A manual.x86_64-linux

Signed-off-by: aszlig <aszlig@redmoonstudios.org>
2017-01-25 21:40:07 +01:00
Pascal Bach a6968ad43c installing: document how to activate SSH during installation 2017-01-25 21:09:31 +01:00
David Reaver ed4a061c34 NixOS manual: Add docs for Virtualbox guest (#17454)
Fixes #13311
2016-08-07 04:10:29 +02:00
Eric Sagnes 9236eedbc3 documentation: fix start display-manager command
[Bjørn: The 'start' alias was removed in commit 1d9651e723
("Remove systemd shell aliases").]
2016-07-04 10:25:31 +02:00
Wilhelm Schuster 5f8d14546b Manual: Explicitly mark commands that require to be run as root (#15589)
* manual: Mark commands that require root

Mark every command that requires to be run as root by prefixing them
with '#' instead of '$'.

* manual: Add note about commands that require root
2016-06-01 15:23:32 +01:00
Domen Kožar 90d7041ce4 PXE boot: add manual section and note in changelog 2016-04-29 10:42:45 +01:00
Joachim Fasting 678e1955b1 manual: delete dangling pointer to real-world NixOS configs
At some point we probably want to replace this with a curated list
of configurations or even an upstreamed repository of examples, but
for now this is just noise.

Fixes NixOS/nixpkgs#14522
2016-04-08 19:34:57 +02:00
Profpatsch af4e8a4d3b manual/installing: add loadkeys hint
Closes #13702 and fixes #3132.
(Tiny changes by vcunat.)
2016-03-06 11:05:39 +01:00
Drew Carey Buglione 0f52d33f96 nixos/manual: typo 2015-12-26 12:36:19 -06:00
Vladimír Čunát 91dced6ba0 nixos/manual: installation iso logs in automatically 2015-10-11 13:37:19 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 18b5bd8dca Add some info about editors 2015-06-04 14:32:10 +02:00
Domen Kožar 91bdca38a0 NetworkManager.service -> network-manager.service 2014-11-27 12:10:20 +01:00
Luca Bruno 7dbf4d73c7 docs: hint to stop NetworkManager during installation to manually configure the network 2014-11-02 23:42:17 +01:00