From d4c202b3115ab7d9f58bd4ef1d965b17e47630cb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eelco Dolstra 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 + + +
Testing the installer - 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 @@ Installation - - -
- -Building the installation CD - -Instead of building an installation CD, you could just download -one from . If you want -(or need) to build it yourself: - - - - Make sure that you have a very - recent pre-release version of Nix installed (). - The NixOS Nix expressions frequently use bleeding-edge features. If - you get any kind of expression evaluation error, try to upgrade your - Nix. - - Optional but strongly recommended (and currently - required for building the - x86_64 ISO): subscribe/pull from the Nixpkgs - channel to speed up building, i.e., - - -$ nix-channel --add http://nixos.org/releases/nixpkgs/channels/nixpkgs-unstable -$ nix-channel --update - - - - Check out NixOS from as - nixos. - - Check out Nixpkgs from - as - nixpkgs. - - Build the ISO image: - - -$ nix-build ./nixos/release.nix -A iso_minimal.iso - - If everything goes well, you’ll end up with an ISO image in - ./result/iso/nixos-version-platform.iso - that you can burn onto a CD or attach to a virtual CD-ROM drive in - your favourite virtual machine software. - - - - - -
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