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Booting from a USB Drive
For systems without CD drive, the NixOS live CD can be booted from a USB
stick. You can use the dd utility to write the image:
dd if=path-to-image of=/dev/sdX. Be careful about specifying the correct
drive; you can use the lsblk command to get a list of block devices.
::: {.note} ::: {.title} On macOS :::
$ diskutil list
[..]
/dev/diskN (external, physical):
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
[..]
$ diskutil unmountDisk diskN
Unmount of all volumes on diskN was successful
$ sudo dd if=nix.iso of=/dev/rdiskN bs=1M
Using the 'raw' rdiskN device instead of diskN completes in
minutes instead of hours. After dd completes, a GUI dialog "The disk
you inserted was not readable by this computer" will pop up, which can
be ignored.
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The dd utility will write the image verbatim to the drive, making it
the recommended option for both UEFI and non-UEFI installations.