From dd602120a02a3a9c239d56c3c17103f3df56f4f0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Samuel Dionne-Riel Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2018 19:34:32 -0500 Subject: [PATCH 1/2] 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. --- nixos/doc/manual/installation/obtaining.xml | 8 ++------ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/nixos/doc/manual/installation/obtaining.xml b/nixos/doc/manual/installation/obtaining.xml index 20a4838be880..c19508f21615 100644 --- a/nixos/doc/manual/installation/obtaining.xml +++ b/nixos/doc/manual/installation/obtaining.xml @@ -12,12 +12,8 @@ download page. There are a number of installation options. If you happen to have an optical drive and a spare CD, burning the image to CD and booting from that is probably the easiest option. Most people will need to prepare a USB stick to boot from. -Unetbootin is recommended and the process is described in brief below. -Note that systems which use UEFI require some additional manual steps. -If you run into difficulty a number of alternative methods are presented -in the NixOS -Wiki. + describes the preferred method +to prepare a USB stick. As an alternative to installing NixOS yourself, you can get a running NixOS system through several other means: From 0e6346f16a9989a9c218b13875c466e0ba3134dd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Samuel Dionne-Riel Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2018 19:35:40 -0500 Subject: [PATCH 2/2] 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. --- nixos/doc/manual/installation/obtaining.xml | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/nixos/doc/manual/installation/obtaining.xml b/nixos/doc/manual/installation/obtaining.xml index c19508f21615..9b2b474c60ce 100644 --- a/nixos/doc/manual/installation/obtaining.xml +++ b/nixos/doc/manual/installation/obtaining.xml @@ -14,6 +14,9 @@ image to CD and booting from that is probably the easiest option. Most people will need to prepare a USB stick to boot from. describes the preferred method to prepare a USB stick. +A number of alternative methods are presented in the NixOS +Wiki. As an alternative to installing NixOS yourself, you can get a running NixOS system through several other means: