Author: eelco Date: Tue Apr 24 15:14:26 2012 New Revision: 33909 URL: https://nixos.org/websvn/nix/?rev=33909&sc=1
Log: * Remove redundant section on building the installation CD. Modified: nixos/trunk/doc/manual/development.xml nixos/trunk/doc/manual/installation.xml Modified: nixos/trunk/doc/manual/development.xml ============================================================================== --- nixos/trunk/doc/manual/development.xml Tue Apr 24 13:54:33 2012 (r33908) +++ nixos/trunk/doc/manual/development.xml Tue Apr 24 15:14:26 2012 (r33909) @@ -335,11 +335,13 @@ </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: Modified: nixos/trunk/doc/manual/installation.xml ============================================================================== --- nixos/trunk/doc/manual/installation.xml Tue Apr 24 13:54:33 2012 (r33908) +++ nixos/trunk/doc/manual/installation.xml Tue Apr 24 15:14:26 2012 (r33909) @@ -8,61 +8,6 @@ <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> - <title>Installation</title> <orderedlist> _______________________________________________ nix-commits mailing list [email protected] http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-commits
