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<title>Booting from a USB Drive</title>

<para>For systems without CD drive, the NixOS live CD can be booted from
a USB stick. For non-UEFI installations,
<link xlink:href="http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/">unetbootin</link>
will work. For UEFI installations, you should mount the ISO, copy its contents
verbatim to your drive, then either:

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  <listitem>
    <para>Change the label of the disk partition to the label of the ISO
    (visible with the blkid command), or</para>
  </listitem>
  <listitem>
    <para>Edit <filename>loader/entries/nixos-livecd.conf</filename> on the drive
    and change the <literal>root=</literal> field in the <literal>options</literal>
    line to point to your drive (see the documentation on <literal>root=</literal>
    in <link xlink:href="https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt">
    the kernel documentation</link> for more details).</para>
  </listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</para>

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