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xml:id="sec-obtaining">
<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
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
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
details.</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</para>
</chapter>