From a6968ad43c1b6ab7fc341ddba4ed0a082a24229b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Pascal Bach <pascal.bach@nextrem.ch>
Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2017 22:34:43 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] installing: document how to activate SSH during installation

---
 nixos/doc/manual/installation/installing.xml | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/nixos/doc/manual/installation/installing.xml b/nixos/doc/manual/installation/installing.xml
index 04a186a1bca..79d07ae7257 100644
--- a/nixos/doc/manual/installation/installing.xml
+++ b/nixos/doc/manual/installation/installing.xml
@@ -37,6 +37,11 @@
   first disable network-manager with
   <command>systemctl stop network-manager</command>.</para></listitem>
 
+  <listitem><para>If you would like to continue the installation from a different
+  machine you need to activate the SSH daemon via <literal>systemctl start sshd</literal>.
+  In order to be able to login you also need to set a password for
+  <literal>root</literal> using <literal>passwd<literal>.</para></listitem>
+
   <listitem><para>The NixOS installer doesn’t do any partitioning or
   formatting yet, so you need to do that yourself.  Use the following
   commands: