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diff --git a/nixpkgs/nixos/doc/manual/installation/installing.xml b/nixpkgs/nixos/doc/manual/installation/installing.xml
index 673df8f2e4c..6df1d830348 100644
--- a/nixpkgs/nixos/doc/manual/installation/installing.xml
+++ b/nixpkgs/nixos/doc/manual/installation/installing.xml
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@
</para>
<para>
- If the text is too small to be legible, try <command>setfont ter-132n</command>
+ If the text is too small to be legible, try <command>setfont ter-v32n</command>
to increase the font size.
</para>
@@ -70,9 +70,13 @@
<para>
If you would like to continue the installation from a different machine you
- need to activate the SSH daemon via <command>systemctl start
- sshd</command>. You then must set a password for either <literal>root</literal> or
- <literal>nixos</literal> with <command>passwd</command> to be able to login.
+ can use activated SSH daemon. You need to copy your ssh key to either
+ <literal>/home/nixos/.ssh/authorized_keys</literal> or
+ <literal>/root/.ssh/authorized_keys</literal> (Tip: For installers with a
+ modifiable filesystem such as the sd-card installer image a key can be manually
+ placed by mounting the image on a different machine). Alternatively you must set
+ a password for either <literal>root</literal> or <literal>nixos</literal> with
+ <command>passwd</command> to be able to login.
</para>
</section>
</section>
@@ -146,7 +150,7 @@
partition. It uses the initially reserved 512MiB at the start of the
disk.
<screen language="commands"><prompt># </prompt>parted /dev/sda -- mkpart ESP fat32 1MiB 512MiB
-<prompt># </prompt>parted /dev/sda -- set 3 boot on</screen>
+<prompt># </prompt>parted /dev/sda -- set 3 esp on</screen>
</para>
</listitem>
</orderedlist>
@@ -513,7 +517,7 @@ Retype new UNIX password: ***</screen>
<prompt># </prompt>parted /dev/sda -- mkpart primary 512MiB -8GiB
<prompt># </prompt>parted /dev/sda -- mkpart primary linux-swap -8GiB 100%
<prompt># </prompt>parted /dev/sda -- mkpart ESP fat32 1MiB 512MiB
-<prompt># </prompt>parted /dev/sda -- set 3 boot on</screen>
+<prompt># </prompt>parted /dev/sda -- set 3 esp on</screen>
</example>
<example xml:id="ex-install-sequence">
@@ -550,7 +554,7 @@ Retype new UNIX password: ***</screen>
# Note: setting fileSystems is generally not
# necessary, since nixos-generate-config figures them out
# automatically in hardware-configuration.nix.
- #<link linkend="opt-fileSystems._name__.device">fileSystems."/".device</link> = "/dev/disk/by-label/nixos";
+ #<link linkend="opt-fileSystems._name_.device">fileSystems."/".device</link> = "/dev/disk/by-label/nixos";
# Enable the OpenSSH server.
services.sshd.enable = true;