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+[
+
+  (option {
+    name = ["networking" "hostname"];
+    default = "nixos";
+    description = "The name of the machine."
+  })
+
+  (option {
+    name = ["networking" "useDHCP"];
+    default = true;
+    description = "
+      Whether to use DHCP to obtain an IP adress and other
+      configuration for all network interfaces that are not manually
+      configured.
+    "
+  })
+
+  (option {
+    name = ["networking" "interfaces"];
+    default = [];
+    example = [
+      { interface = "eth0";
+        ipAddress = "131.211.84.78";
+        netmask = "255.255.255.128";
+        gateway = "131.211.84.1";
+      }
+    ];
+    description = "
+      The configuration for each network interface.  If
+      <option>networking.useDHCP</option> is true, then each interface
+      not listed here will be configured using DHCP.
+    "
+  })
+
+  (option {
+    name = ["filesystems" "mountPoints"];
+    example = [
+      { device = "/dev/hda2";
+        mountPoint = "/";
+      }
+    ];
+    description = "
+      The file systems to be mounted by NixOS.  It must include an
+      entry for the root directory (<literal>mountPoint =
+      \"/\"</literal>).  This is the file system on which NixOS is (to
+      be) installed..
+    ";
+  })
+
+  (option {
+    name = ["services" "syslogd" "tty"];
+    default = 10;
+    description = "
+      The tty device on which syslogd will print important log
+      messages.
+    ";
+  })
+    
+  (option {
+    name = ["services" "mingetty" "ttys"];
+    default = [1 2 3 4 5 6];
+    description = "
+      The list of tty (virtual console) devices on which to start a
+      login prompt.
+    ";
+  })
+    
+  (option {
+    name = ["services" "mingetty" "waitOnMounts"];
+    default = false;
+    description = "
+      Whether the login prompts on the virtual consoles will be
+      started before or after all file systems have been mounted.  By
+      default we don't wait, but if for example your /home is on a
+      separate partition, you may want to turn this on.
+    ";
+  })
+
+  (option {
+    name = ["services" "sshd" "enable"];
+    default = false;
+    description = "
+      Whether to enable the Secure Shell daemon, which allows secure
+      remote logins.
+    ";
+  })
+
+  (option {
+    name = ["services" "sshd" "forwardX11"];
+    default = false;
+    description = "
+      Whether to enable sshd to forward X11 connections.
+    ";
+  })
+
+]