From be0555b8a84b6c3813e58492f232a3714b891424 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Max Bruckner <max@maxbruckner.de>
Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2019 20:42:42 +0100
Subject: nixos/doc: Add note about /usr/sbin and /sbin

An installation from Debian buster may fail without adding /usr/sbin to
$PATH because chroot is not in the PATH of a non-root user.
---
 nixos/doc/manual/installation/installing-from-other-distro.xml | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

(limited to 'nixos/doc')

diff --git a/nixos/doc/manual/installation/installing-from-other-distro.xml b/nixos/doc/manual/installation/installing-from-other-distro.xml
index 8ed45899fd7f..2947f9d5a0b9 100644
--- a/nixos/doc/manual/installation/installing-from-other-distro.xml
+++ b/nixos/doc/manual/installation/installing-from-other-distro.xml
@@ -161,6 +161,13 @@ nixpkgs https://nixos.org/channels/nixpkgs-unstable</screen>
      existing systems without the help of a rescue USB drive or similar.
     </para>
    </warning>
+   <note>
+    <para>
+     On some distributions there are separate PATHS for programs intended only for root.
+     In order for the installation to succeed, you might have to use <literal>PATH="$PATH:/usr/sbin:/sbin"</literal>
+     in the following command.
+    </para>
+   </note>
 <screen><prompt>$ </prompt>sudo PATH="$PATH" NIX_PATH="$NIX_PATH" `which nixos-install` --root /mnt</screen>
    <para>
     Again, please refer to the <literal>nixos-install</literal> step in
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