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Manual: Mention other ways to get NixOS

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@ -18,6 +18,33 @@ details, see the <link
xlink:href="https://nixos.org/wiki/Installing_NixOS_from_a_USB_stick">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
homepage</link>.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Using AMIs for Amazon’s EC2. To find one for your region
and instance type, please refer to the <link
xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/nixops/blob/master/nix/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://github.com/NixOS/nixops">NixOps
homepage</link> for details.</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</para>
</section>