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7<title>Obtaining NixOS</title>
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9<para>NixOS ISO images can be downloaded from the <link
10xlink:href="http://nixos.org/nixos/download.html">NixOS
11download page</link>. There are a number of installation options. If
12you happen to have an optical drive and a spare CD, burning the
13image to CD and booting from that is probably the easiest option.
14Most people will need to prepare a USB stick to boot from.
15Unetbootin is recommended and the process is described in brief below.
16Note that systems which use UEFI require some additional manual steps.
17If you run into difficulty a number of alternative methods are presented
18in the <link
19xlink:href="https://nixos.org/wiki/Installing_NixOS_from_a_USB_stick">NixOS
20Wiki</link>.</para>
21
22<para>As an alternative to installing NixOS yourself, you can get a
23running NixOS system through several other means:
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27 <para>Using virtual appliances in Open Virtualization Format (OVF)
28 that can be imported into VirtualBox. These are available from
29 the <link xlink:href="http://nixos.org/nixos/download.html">NixOS
30 download page</link>.</para>
31 </listitem>
32 <listitem>
33 <para>Using AMIs for Amazon’s EC2. To find one for your region
34 and instance type, please refer to the <link
35 xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/nixops/blob/master/nix/ec2-amis.nix">list
36 of most recent AMIs</link>.</para>
37 </listitem>
38 <listitem>
39 <para>Using NixOps, the NixOS-based cloud deployment tool, which
40 allows you to provision VirtualBox and EC2 NixOS instances from
41 declarative specifications. Check out the <link
42 xlink:href="https://nixos.org/nixops">NixOps homepage</link> for
43 details.</para>
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