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# Obtaining NixOS {#sec-obtaining}
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NixOS ISO images can be downloaded from the [NixOS download
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page](https://nixos.org/nixos/download.html). There are a number of
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installation options. If you happen to have an optical drive and a spare
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CD, burning the image to CD and booting from that is probably the
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easiest option. Most people will need to prepare a USB stick to boot
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from. [](#sec-booting-from-usb) describes the preferred method to
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prepare a USB stick. A number of alternative methods are presented in
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the [NixOS Wiki](https://nixos.wiki/wiki/NixOS_Installation_Guide#Making_the_installation_media).
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As an alternative to installing NixOS yourself, you can get a running
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NixOS system through several other means:
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- Using virtual appliances in Open Virtualization Format (OVF) that
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can be imported into VirtualBox. These are available from the [NixOS
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download page](https://nixos.org/nixos/download.html).
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- Using AMIs for Amazon's EC2. To find one for your region and
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instance type, please refer to the [list of most recent
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AMIs](https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/nixos/modules/virtualisation/ec2-amis.nix).
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- Using NixOps, the NixOS-based cloud deployment tool, which allows
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you to provision VirtualBox and EC2 NixOS instances from declarative
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specifications. Check out the [NixOps
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homepage](https://nixos.org/nixops) for details.
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