diff --git a/nixos/doc/manual/installation/installing.xml b/nixos/doc/manual/installation/installing.xml
index b140c56fbee..dd1acba2168 100644
--- a/nixos/doc/manual/installation/installing.xml
+++ b/nixos/doc/manual/installation/installing.xml
@@ -11,14 +11,9 @@
Boot from the CD.
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
- ifconfig). 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 ifconfig.
+ hardware.
The NixOS manual is available on virtual console 8
(press Alt+F8 to access).
@@ -29,6 +24,16 @@
If you downloaded the graphical ISO image, you can
run start display-manager to start KDE.
+ The boot process should have brought up networking (check
+ ifconfig). 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 ifconfig.
+ To manually configure the network on the graphical installer,
+ first disable NetworkManager with
+ stop NetworkManager.
+
The NixOS installer doesn’t do any partitioning or
formatting yet, so you need to that yourself. Use the following
commands: