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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:
12
13<screen>
14# mount -t tmpfs none /mnt
15# nixos-generate-config --root /mnt
16$ nix-build '<nixpkgs/nixos>' -A config.system.build.nixos-install
17# ./result/bin/nixos-install</screen>
18
19To start a login shell in the new NixOS installation in
20<filename>/mnt</filename>:
21
22<screen>
23$ nix-build '<nixpkgs/nixos>' -A config.system.build.nixos-enter
24# ./result/bin/nixos-enter
25</screen>
26
27</para>
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29</chapter>