From d4c202b3115ab7d9f58bd4ef1d965b17e47630cb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Eelco Dolstra <eelco.dolstra@logicblox.com>
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2012 15:14:26 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] * Remove redundant section on building the installation CD.

svn path=/nixos/trunk/; revision=33909
---
 doc/manual/development.xml  |  4 ++-
 doc/manual/installation.xml | 55 -------------------------------------
 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 56 deletions(-)

diff --git a/doc/manual/development.xml b/doc/manual/development.xml
index 8318c0bd04a..621e9fd4ffe 100644
--- a/doc/manual/development.xml
+++ b/doc/manual/development.xml
@@ -335,11 +335,13 @@ $ mount -o loop -t iso9660 ./result/iso/cd.iso /mnt/iso</screen>
 
 </section>
 
+
+<!--===============================================================-->
+
 <section>
 
 <title>Testing the installer</title>
 
-
 <para>Building, burning, and booting from an installation CD is rather
 tedious, so here is a quick way to see if the installer works
 properly:
diff --git a/doc/manual/installation.xml b/doc/manual/installation.xml
index d9354b88ec0..e5921492069 100644
--- a/doc/manual/installation.xml
+++ b/doc/manual/installation.xml
@@ -4,61 +4,6 @@
 <title>Installation</title>
 
 
-<!--===============================================================-->
-
-<section>
-
-<title>Building the installation CD</title>
-
-<para>Instead of building an installation CD, you could just download
-one from <link xlink:href="http://nixos.org/nixos/"/>.  If you want
-(or need) to build it yourself:
-
-<orderedlist>
-
-  <listitem><para>Make sure that you have a <emphasis>very</emphasis>
-  recent pre-release version of Nix installed (<link
-  xlink:href="http://nixos.org/releases/nix/nix-unstable/"/>).
-  The NixOS Nix expressions frequently use bleeding-edge features.  If
-  you get any kind of expression evaluation error, try to upgrade your
-  Nix.</para></listitem>
-
-  <listitem><para>Optional but strongly recommended (and currently
-  <emphasis>required</emphasis> for building the
-  <literal>x86_64</literal> ISO): subscribe/pull from the Nixpkgs
-  channel to speed up building, i.e.,
-
-<screen>
-$ nix-channel --add http://nixos.org/releases/nixpkgs/channels/nixpkgs-unstable
-$ nix-channel --update</screen>
-
-  </para></listitem>
-
-  <listitem><para>Check out NixOS from <link
-  xlink:href="https://nixos.org/repos/nix/nixos/trunk"/> as
-  <literal>nixos</literal>.</para></listitem>
-
-  <listitem><para>Check out Nixpkgs from
-  <link xlink:href="https://nixos.org/repos/nix/nixpkgs/trunk"/> as
-  <literal>nixpkgs</literal>.</para></listitem>
-
-  <listitem><para>Build the ISO image:
-
-<screen>
-$ nix-build ./nixos/release.nix -A iso_minimal.iso</screen>
-
-  If everything goes well, you’ll end up with an ISO image in
-  <filename>./result/iso/nixos-<replaceable>version</replaceable>-<replaceable>platform</replaceable>.iso</filename>
-  that you can burn onto a CD or attach to a virtual CD-ROM drive in
-  your favourite virtual machine software.</para></listitem>
-
-</orderedlist>
-
-</para>
-
-</section>
-
-
 <!--===============================================================-->
 
 <section>