diff options
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/manual')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/manual/src/installation/installing-binary.md | 14 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/doc/manual/src/installation/installing-binary.md b/doc/manual/src/installation/installing-binary.md index ed0f65177..2d007ca1b 100644 --- a/doc/manual/src/installation/installing-binary.md +++ b/doc/manual/src/installation/installing-binary.md @@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ for your platform: - multi-user on macOS > **Notes on read-only filesystem root in macOS 10.15 Catalina +** - > + > > - It took some time to support this cleanly. You may see posts, > examples, and tutorials using obsolete workarounds. > - Supporting it cleanly made macOS installs too complex to qualify @@ -31,8 +31,8 @@ $ sh <(curl -L https://nixos.org/nix/install) --no-daemon ``` This will perform a single-user installation of Nix, meaning that `/nix` -is owned by the invoking user. You should run this under your usual user -account, *not* as root. The script will invoke `sudo` to create `/nix` +is owned by the invoking user. You can run this under your usual user +account or root. The script will invoke `sudo` to create `/nix` if it doesn’t already exist. If you don’t have `sudo`, you should manually create `/nix` first as root, e.g.: @@ -71,11 +71,11 @@ $ sh <(curl -L https://nixos.org/nix/install) --daemon The multi-user installation of Nix will create build users between the user IDs 30001 and 30032, and a group with the group ID 30000. You -should run this under your usual user account, *not* as root. The script +can run this under your usual user account or root. The script will invoke `sudo` as needed. > **Note** -> +> > If you need Nix to use a different group ID or user ID set, you will > have to download the tarball manually and [edit the install > script](#installing-from-a-binary-tarball). @@ -168,7 +168,7 @@ and `/etc/zshrc` which you may remove. removed next. 7. Remove the Nix Store volume: - + ```console sudo diskutil apfs deleteVolume /nix ``` @@ -189,7 +189,7 @@ and `/etc/zshrc` which you may remove. identifier. > **Note** -> +> > After you complete the steps here, you will still have an empty `/nix` > directory. This is an expected sign of a successful uninstall. The empty > `/nix` directory will disappear the next time you reboot. |