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version="5.0"
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<title>Obtaining NixOS</title>
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<para>
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NixOS ISO images can be downloaded from the
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<link
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xlink:href="http://nixos.org/nixos/download.html">NixOS download
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page</link>. There are a number of installation options. If you happen to
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have an optical drive and a spare CD, burning the image to CD and booting
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from that is probably the easiest option. Most people will need to prepare a
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USB stick to boot from. <xref linkend="sec-booting-from-usb"/> describes the
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preferred method to prepare a USB stick. A number of alternative methods are
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presented in the
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<link
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xlink:href="https://nixos.wiki/wiki/NixOS_Installation_Guide#Making_the_installation_media">NixOS
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Wiki</link>.
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</para>
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As an alternative to installing NixOS yourself, you can get a running NixOS
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system through several other means:
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Using virtual appliances in Open Virtualization Format (OVF) that can be
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imported into VirtualBox. These are available from the
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<link xlink:href="http://nixos.org/nixos/download.html">NixOS download
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page</link>.
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</para>
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Using AMIs for Amazon’s EC2. To find one for your region and instance
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type, please refer to the
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<link
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xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/nixos/modules/virtualisation/ec2-amis.nix">list
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of most recent AMIs</link>.
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</para>
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Using NixOps, the NixOS-based cloud deployment tool, which allows you to
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provision VirtualBox and EC2 NixOS instances from declarative
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specifications. Check out the
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<link
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xlink:href="https://nixos.org/nixops">NixOps homepage</link> for
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details.
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</para>
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