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.