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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
Florian Klink 6cabce9abd manual: rename users.extraUsers to users.users
Is called like this since 14321ae243, but
docs were still using the old option in some cases.

Reported-By: Cedric Shahabi <cedric.shahabi@gmail.com>
2018-06-28 23:54:02 +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
Walter Franzini 205a9f2576 minor improvement to nix installation instructions (#40521)
* improve nix installation instructions

in the command

	$ bash <(curl https://nixos.org/nix/install)

<(..) is a bashism.  The documentation now show a command that does
not require to be executed by bash.
2018-05-16 00:23:00 -05:00
Graham Christensen eca5c99bf8
nixos docs: format =) 2018-05-01 19:57:09 -04:00
edef 1a18fedae4 nixos doc: mananager -> manager 2018-05-01 19:58:50 +02:00
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
Raphael Das Gupta 368947a3a5
nixos manual: add missing space after "copytoram" 2018-04-16 01:14:23 +02:00
Reuben D'Netto 42a84598fb Added cross-references to NixOS manual 2018-04-12 09:39:14 +10:00
obadz ee9a785c30 nixos doc: give context and definition re NIXOS_LUSTRATE
Re #36272
2018-03-07 01:23:20 +00:00
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
Markus Hauck 0525e82392 docs: Explain how to login into built vm 2018-02-07 21:34:50 +01:00
Rommel Martinez f716cdb9be nixos manual: fix typo 2018-01-22 09:39:24 +02:00
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
Vincent Murphy bd09ef9c21
Update macos USB instructions
"Ejecting" from the Finder ejects the entire device which is then not available for dd. diskutil unmountDisk does the right thing. Furthermore writing to diskN instead of rdiskN failed to complete even after waiting >10 minutes.
2018-01-06 18:13:58 +00:00
Samuel Dionne-Riel 0e6346f16a doc: Obtaining NixOS: New link to section in wiki.
This adds a link to the new section in the new wiki that refers to the
same contents as the previously removed link.
2018-01-03 19:35:40 -05:00
Samuel Dionne-Riel dd602120a0 doc: Obtaining NixOS now refers to USB media creation chapter.
This:

 * Removes contradiction with information in the later paragraph.
 * Removes a dead link to the Wiki.
2018-01-03 19:34:32 -05:00
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
rardiol 73a8e002d4 doc/installing-usb.xml: fix dead kernel parameter link docs. 2017-10-15 19:28:30 -02:00
davidak 3270aa896b replace "Mac OS X" and "OS X" with "macOS"
as it is the official name since 2016

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh_operating_systems#Desktop

exception are parts refering to older versions of macOS like

"GUI support for Mac OS X 10.6 - 10.12. Note that Emacs 23 and later [...]"
2017-08-07 21:41:30 +02:00
Antonio Malara f1ab9f3175 removing the advise to add virtualbox's guest additions in configuration.nix
... because `nixos-generate-config` currently understand it's running under virtualbox, and correctly adds the configuration in `/etc/nixos/hardware-configuration.nix`
2017-05-15 14:23:50 +02:00
lassulus 87a4615e27 nixos/stage1: add copytoram support 2017-04-28 20:48:09 +02:00
Christine Koppelt e5c927cb8d NixOS Manual: Update version numbers 2017-03-25 20:14:04 +01:00
Aleksey Kladov edac1d3e7a docs: clarify UEFI bootloader setup 2017-03-25 00:48:27 +03:00
Carlos D e6a02918ce Expand on creating USB bootable for OS X 2017-03-21 17:31:10 +01:00
Lorenzo Manacorda 2c4d9c9228
manual: Add link to config section (#22994)
Add link to "Configuration" chapter from "Changing the Configuration" section.

Also, fix grammar error.
(cherry picked from commit a585f987fa32f2e81b3f273291971151c25f98b7)
2017-02-20 14:32:49 +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 Terry f067bca841 nixos: docs: note that channels are per user 2016-12-07 09:06:25 +01:00
Andres Nötzli 95b5e4c46a NixOS manual: Update link to list of AMIs 2016-11-07 11:24:15 -08:00
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
Eelco Dolstra 9f0e137338 Rename boot.loader.gummiboot.enable -> boot.loader.systemd-boot.enable 2016-06-01 12:55:52 +02:00
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
Rastus Vernon d6998b0674 nixos manual: recommend use of dd for writing the image
Unetbootin works by altering the image and placing a boot loader on it.
For this reason, it cannot work with UEFI and the installation guides
for other distributions (incl. Debian and Fedora) recommend against
using it.

Since dd writes the image verbatim to the drive, and not just the files,
it is not necessary to change the label after using it for UEFI
installations.

vcunat: tiny changes to the PR. Close #14139.
2016-04-02 17:41:38 +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
Hajo Möller f1ac7bf80a nixos manual: point to NixOps' homepage, not Github 2015-11-14 17:17:29 +01:00
Vladimír Čunát 91dced6ba0 nixos/manual: installation iso logs in automatically 2015-10-11 13:37:19 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra e70f8c58cc Manual: Document system.autoUpgrade 2015-09-02 16:17:32 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 6948c3ab80 Installer: Add nomodeset and blacklist the nouveau driver
I observed a hang at the moment the nouveau driver gets loaded on a
GTX 970.
2015-07-25 19:06:07 +02:00
William A. Kennington III 514a9fdf87 Merge pull request #8173 from dezgeg/pr-kernel-config
kernel-config: Enable framebuffer console for BIOS systems & /proc/config.gz for ARM
2015-06-07 10:14:51 -07:00
Eelco Dolstra 18b5bd8dca Add some info about editors 2015-06-04 14:32:10 +02:00
Tuomas Tynkkynen 9c2f2bc893 kernel-config: Enable FB_VESA and FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE
Commit 159fed47bc (nixos/grub: Fix video display on efi) changed BIOS
systems to start in non-text mode as well. Enable FB_VESA to get a
framebuffer console on BIOS systems. Change FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE to 'y'
instead of the default 'm' to so the user doesn't need to manually load
the fbcon module anymore.

Other distros have similar defaults, at least on Arch:
    CONFIG_FB_VESA=y
    CONFIG_FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE=y
and on Ubuntu (12.04):
    CONFIG_FB_VESA=m
    CONFIG_FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE=y

Fixes #8139
2015-06-04 11:26:20 +03:00
Khalid Jebbari 1d3a592ae0 Bad name for the NixOS download page 2015-01-04 18:33:30 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 3370ee6a13 Document small channels 2014-12-30 22:31:27 +01:00
Domen Kožar 5d9b24e1ec typo
(cherry picked from commit ad4e371acf5104ecf6a309ca8f974c7147ba1843)
Signed-off-by: Domen Kožar <domen@dev.si>
2014-12-14 11:29:09 +01:00
Domen Kožar 48a282b913 http://nixos.org -> https://nixos.org
(cherry picked from commit 78bb17dd22e4da4e3810fbc78185d73bb25ea73e)
Signed-off-by: Domen Kožar <domen@dev.si>
2014-12-14 11:26:45 +01:00
cillianderoiste 9c90498b1f Update obtaining.xml
Avoid pointing to the wiki for the default installation method (which points back to the manual anyway). Use more words.
2014-12-07 14:38:54 +01:00
Domen Kožar 91bdca38a0 NetworkManager.service -> network-manager.service 2014-11-27 12:10:20 +01:00
Domen Kožar 85daeeb222 Merge pull request #4639 from lethalman/installer-nm
kde installer: enable networkmanager. Closes #3433
2014-11-21 22:29:10 +01:00
Rene Donner 8bd2f6bfc1 some typos 2014-11-14 13:05:55 +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
Eelco Dolstra 60e6cc81b5 No caps in filenames 2014-08-26 19:04:02 +02:00
Mikey Ariel a099ca4505 Chunk NixOS manual
[Squashed commits to make git blame etc. more likely to work. -ED]
2014-08-26 19:03:49 +02:00