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Obtaining NixOS

NixOS ISO images can be downloaded from the NixOS download page. Follow the instructions in to create a bootable USB flash drive.

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.

As an alternative to installing NixOS yourself, you can get a running NixOS system through several other means:

  • Using virtual appliances in Open Virtualization Format (OVF) that can be imported into VirtualBox. These are available from the NixOS download page.

  • Using AMIs for Amazon's EC2. To find one for your region, please refer to the download page.

  • Using NixOps, the NixOS-based cloud deployment tool, which allows you to provision VirtualBox and EC2 NixOS instances from declarative specifications. Check out the NixOps homepage for details.