diff --git a/nixos/doc/manual/installation/obtaining.xml b/nixos/doc/manual/installation/obtaining.xml index ceeeb5c0ac0..540f19c3201 100644 --- a/nixos/doc/manual/installation/obtaining.xml +++ b/nixos/doc/manual/installation/obtaining.xml @@ -8,9 +8,14 @@ NixOS ISO images can be downloaded from the NixOS -homepage. These can be burned onto a CD. It is also possible -to copy them onto a USB stick and install NixOS from there. For -details, see the . There are a number of installation options. If +you happen to have an optical drive and a spare CD, burning the +image to CD and booting from that is probably the easiest option. +Most people will need to prepare a USB stick to boot from. +Unetbootin is recommended and the process is described in brief below. +Note that systems which use UEFI require some additional manual steps. +If you run into difficulty a number of alternative methods are presented +in the NixOS Wiki.