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authorOrivej Desh <orivej@gmx.fr>2018-01-06 03:25:25 +0000
committerGitHub <noreply@github.com>2018-01-06 03:25:25 +0000
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Merge pull request #33406 from samueldr/doc/usb-device
Documentation: reword "Obtaining NixOS" paragraph to remove contradiction + update link
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diff --git a/nixos/doc/manual/installation/obtaining.xml b/nixos/doc/manual/installation/obtaining.xml
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+++ b/nixos/doc/manual/installation/obtaining.xml
@@ -12,11 +12,10 @@ download page</link>.  There are a number of installation options.  If
 you happen to have an optical drive and a spare CD, burning the
 image to CD and booting from that is probably the easiest option.
 Most people will need to prepare a USB stick to boot from.
-Unetbootin is recommended and the process is described in brief below.
-Note that systems which use UEFI require some additional manual steps.
-If you run into difficulty a number of alternative methods are presented
-in the <link
-xlink:href="https://nixos.org/wiki/Installing_NixOS_from_a_USB_stick">NixOS
+<xref linkend="sec-booting-from-usb"/> describes the preferred method
+to prepare a USB stick.
+A number of alternative methods are presented in the <link
+xlink:href="https://nixos.wiki/wiki/NixOS_Installation_Guide#Making_the_installation_media">NixOS
 Wiki</link>.</para>
 
 <para>As an alternative to installing NixOS yourself, you can get a