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* Remove redundant section on building the installation CD.

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</section>
<!--===============================================================-->
<section>
<title>Testing the installer</title>
<para>Building, burning, and booting from an installation CD is rather
tedious, so here is a quick way to see if the installer works
properly:

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<title>Installation</title>
<!--===============================================================-->
<section>
<title>Building the installation CD</title>
<para>Instead of building an installation CD, you could just download
one from <link xlink:href="http://nixos.org/nixos/"/>. If you want
(or need) to build it yourself:
<orderedlist>
<listitem><para>Make sure that you have a <emphasis>very</emphasis>
recent pre-release version of Nix installed (<link
xlink:href="http://nixos.org/releases/nix/nix-unstable/"/>).
The NixOS Nix expressions frequently use bleeding-edge features. If
you get any kind of expression evaluation error, try to upgrade your
Nix.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Optional but strongly recommended (and currently
<emphasis>required</emphasis> for building the
<literal>x86_64</literal> ISO): subscribe/pull from the Nixpkgs
channel to speed up building, i.e.,
<screen>
$ nix-channel --add http://nixos.org/releases/nixpkgs/channels/nixpkgs-unstable
$ nix-channel --update</screen>
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Check out NixOS from <link
xlink:href="https://nixos.org/repos/nix/nixos/trunk"/> as
<literal>nixos</literal>.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Check out Nixpkgs from
<link xlink:href="https://nixos.org/repos/nix/nixpkgs/trunk"/> as
<literal>nixpkgs</literal>.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Build the ISO image:
<screen>
$ nix-build ./nixos/release.nix -A iso_minimal.iso</screen>
If everything goes well, you’ll end up with an ISO image in
<filename>./result/iso/nixos-<replaceable>version</replaceable>-<replaceable>platform</replaceable>.iso</filename>
that you can burn onto a CD or attach to a virtual CD-ROM drive in
your favourite virtual machine software.</para></listitem>
</orderedlist>
</para>
</section>
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<section>