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<chapter xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xml:id="sec-obtaining">
<title>Obtaining NixOS</title>
<para>
NixOS ISO images can be downloaded from the
<link xlink:href="https://nixos.org/download.html#nixos-iso">NixOS
download page</link>. Follow the instructions in
<xref linkend="sec-booting-from-usb" /> to create a bootable USB
flash drive.
</para>
<para>
If you have a very old system that can’t boot from USB, you can burn
the image to an empty CD. NixOS might not work very well on such
systems.
</para>
<para>
As an alternative to installing NixOS yourself, you can get a
running NixOS system through several other means:
</para>
<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="https://nixos.org/download.html#nixos-virtualbox">NixOS
download page</link>.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Using AMIs for Amazon’s EC2. To find one for your region, please
refer to the
<link xlink:href="https://nixos.org/download.html#nixos-amazon">download
page</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>
</chapter>
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