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7<title>Testing the Installer</title>
8
9<para>Building, burning, and booting from an installation CD is rather
10tedious, so here is a quick way to see if the installer works
11properly:
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13<screen>
14$ nix-build -A config.system.build.nixos-install
15# mount -t tmpfs none /mnt
16# ./result/bin/nixos-install</screen>
17
18To start a login shell in the new NixOS installation in
19<filename>/mnt</filename>:
20
21<screen>
22# ./result/bin/nixos-install --chroot
23</screen>
24
25</para>
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