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6 <title>Obtaining NixOS</title>
7 <para>
8 NixOS ISO images can be downloaded from the
9 <link
10xlink:href="http://nixos.org/nixos/download.html">NixOS download
11 page</link>. There are a number of installation options. If you happen to
12 have an optical drive and a spare CD, burning the image to CD and booting
13 from that is probably the easiest option. Most people will need to prepare a
14 USB stick to boot from. <xref linkend="sec-booting-from-usb"/> describes the
15 preferred method to prepare a USB stick. A number of alternative methods are
16 presented in the
17 <link
18xlink:href="https://nixos.wiki/wiki/NixOS_Installation_Guide#Making_the_installation_media">NixOS
19 Wiki</link>.
20 </para>
21 <para>
22 As an alternative to installing NixOS yourself, you can get a running NixOS
23 system through several other means:
24 <itemizedlist>
25 <listitem>
26 <para>
27 Using virtual appliances in Open Virtualization Format (OVF) that can be
28 imported into VirtualBox. These are available from the
29 <link xlink:href="http://nixos.org/nixos/download.html">NixOS download
30 page</link>.
31 </para>
32 </listitem>
33 <listitem>
34 <para>
35 Using AMIs for Amazon’s EC2. To find one for your region and instance
36 type, please refer to the
37 <link
38 xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/nixos/modules/virtualisation/ec2-amis.nix">list
39 of most recent AMIs</link>.
40 </para>
41 </listitem>
42 <listitem>
43 <para>
44 Using NixOps, the NixOS-based cloud deployment tool, which allows you to
45 provision VirtualBox and EC2 NixOS instances from declarative
46 specifications. Check out the
47 <link
48 xlink:href="https://nixos.org/nixops">NixOps homepage</link> for
49 details.
50 </para>
51 </listitem>
52 </itemizedlist>
53 </para>
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