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