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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.
15<xref linkend="sec-booting-from-usb"/> describes the preferred method
16to prepare a USB stick.
17A number of alternative methods are presented in the <link
18xlink:href="https://nixos.wiki/wiki/NixOS_Installation_Guide#Making_the_installation_media">NixOS
19Wiki</link>.</para>
20
21<para>As an alternative to installing NixOS yourself, you can get a
22running NixOS system through several other means:
23
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25 <listitem>
26 <para>Using virtual appliances in Open Virtualization Format (OVF)
27 that can be imported into VirtualBox. These are available from
28 the <link xlink:href="http://nixos.org/nixos/download.html">NixOS
29 download page</link>.</para>
30 </listitem>
31 <listitem>
32 <para>Using AMIs for Amazon’s EC2. To find one for your region
33 and instance type, please refer to the <link
34 xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/nixos/modules/virtualisation/ec2-amis.nix">list
35 of most recent AMIs</link>.</para>
36 </listitem>
37 <listitem>
38 <para>Using NixOps, the NixOS-based cloud deployment tool, which
39 allows you to provision VirtualBox and EC2 NixOS instances from
40 declarative specifications. Check out the <link
41 xlink:href="https://nixos.org/nixops">NixOps homepage</link> for
42 details.</para>
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