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<title > Building Your Own NixOS CD</title>
<para >
Building a NixOS CD is as easy as configuring your own computer. The idea is
to use another module which will replace your
<filename > configuration.nix</filename> to configure the system that would be
installed on the CD.
</para>
<para >
Default CD/DVD configurations are available inside
<filename > nixos/modules/installer/cd-dvd</filename> .
<screen >
<prompt > $ </prompt> git clone https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs.git
<prompt > $ </prompt> cd nixpkgs/nixos
<prompt > $ </prompt> nix-build -A config.system.build.isoImage -I nixos-config=modules/installer/cd-dvd/installation-cd-minimal.nix default.nix</screen>
</para>
<para >
Before burning your CD/DVD, you can check the content of the image by
mounting anywhere like suggested by the following command:
<screen >
<prompt > # </prompt> mount -o loop -t iso9660 ./result/iso/cd.iso /mnt/iso</screen>
</para>
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<para >
If you want to customize your NixOS CD in more detail, or generate other kinds
of images, you might want to check out <link
xlink:href="https://github.com/nix-community/nixos-generators">nixos-generators</link> . This can also be a good starting point when you want to use Nix to build a
'minimal' image that doesn't include a NixOS installation.
</para>
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