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xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
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version="5.0"
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xml:id="sec-obtaining">
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<title>Obtaining NixOS</title>
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<para>NixOS ISO images can be downloaded from the <link
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xlink:href="http://nixos.org/nixos/download.html">NixOS
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download page</link>. There are a number of installation options. If
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you happen to have an optical drive and a spare CD, burning the
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image to CD and booting from that is probably the easiest option.
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Most people will need to prepare a USB stick to boot from.
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Unetbootin is recommended and the process is described in brief below.
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Note that systems which use UEFI require some additional manual steps.
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If you run into difficulty a number of alternative methods are presented
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in the <link
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xlink:href="https://nixos.org/wiki/Installing_NixOS_from_a_USB_stick">NixOS
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Wiki</link>.</para>
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<para>As an alternative to installing NixOS yourself, you can get a
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running NixOS system through several other means:
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<itemizedlist>
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<listitem>
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<para>Using virtual appliances in Open Virtualization Format (OVF)
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that can be imported into VirtualBox. These are available from
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the <link xlink:href="http://nixos.org/nixos/download.html">NixOS
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download page</link>.</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>Using AMIs for Amazon’s EC2. To find one for your region
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and instance type, please refer to the <link
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xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/nixops/blob/master/nix/ec2-amis.nix">list
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of most recent AMIs</link>.</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>Using NixOps, the NixOS-based cloud deployment tool, which
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allows you to provision VirtualBox and EC2 NixOS instances from
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declarative specifications. Check out the <link
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xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/nixops">NixOps
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homepage</link> for details.</para>
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</listitem>
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</itemizedlist>
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</para>
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</chapter>
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