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@@ -132,12 +132,10 @@ the container is then started and LXD initialised
 
 ```
 lxc exec flame-clmc-ci -- bash
-lxd init
-```
-
-Follow the interactive prompts, use the defaults apart from the storage pool type, use `dir` type
+lxd init --auto --storage-backend dir 
+lxc network create lxcbr0 ipv6.address=none ipv4.address=172.40.231.1/24 ipv4.nat=true
 
-Set the ipv4 to the netowrk 172.40.231.1/24
+```
 
 Now configure ip table persistence, this is needed for the fixtures script to work but not for CI