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-<chapter xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xml:id="sec-obtaining">
-  <title>Obtaining NixOS</title>
-  <para>
-    NixOS ISO images can be downloaded from the
-    <link xlink:href="https://nixos.org/nixos/download.html">NixOS
-    download page</link>. 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.
-    <xref linkend="sec-booting-from-usb" /> describes the preferred
-    method to prepare a USB stick. A number of alternative methods are
-    presented in the
-    <link xlink:href="https://nixos.wiki/wiki/NixOS_Installation_Guide#Making_the_installation_media">NixOS
-    Wiki</link>.
-  </para>
-  <para>
-    As an alternative to installing NixOS yourself, you can get a
-    running NixOS system through several other means:
-  </para>
-  <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="https://nixos.org/nixos/download.html">NixOS
-        download page</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/nixpkgs/blob/master/nixos/modules/virtualisation/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://nixos.org/nixops">NixOps
-        homepage</link> for details.
-      </para>
-    </listitem>
-  </itemizedlist>
-</chapter>