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 # Obtaining NixOS {#sec-obtaining}
 
 NixOS ISO images can be downloaded from the [NixOS download
-page](https://nixos.org/nixos/download.html). 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. [](#sec-booting-from-usb) describes the preferred method to
-prepare a USB stick. A number of alternative methods are presented in
-the [NixOS Wiki](https://nixos.wiki/wiki/NixOS_Installation_Guide#Making_the_installation_media).
+page](https://nixos.org/download.html#nixos-iso). Follow the instructions in
+[](#sec-booting-from-usb) 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](https://nixos.org/nixos/download.html).
+    download page](https://nixos.org/download.html#nixos-virtualbox).
 
--   Using AMIs for Amazon's EC2. To find one for your region and
-    instance type, please refer to the [list of most recent
-    AMIs](https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/nixos/modules/virtualisation/ec2-amis.nix).
+-   Using AMIs for Amazon's EC2. To find one for your region, please refer
+    to the [download page](https://nixos.org/download.html#nixos-amazon).
 
 -   Using NixOps, the NixOS-based cloud deployment tool, which allows
     you to provision VirtualBox and EC2 NixOS instances from declarative