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{{note|There is now an ''official'' section in the [https://nixos.org/nixos/manual/index.html#sec-installing-from-other-distro nixos manual] which should be followed before trying to reproduce the steps in this article.}} | |||
Usually when installing NixOS, you boot from an external USB device containing the installer, which makes it easy to change the underlying filesystem. On a remote server however, this is usually not possible. This guide shows you how you can still make it work. Here it is shown with a DigitalOcean (DO) droplet initially running Debian, then replacing the original filesystem with ZFS and installing NixOS on it. | Usually when installing NixOS, you boot from an external USB device containing the installer, which makes it easy to change the underlying filesystem. On a remote server however, this is usually not possible. This guide shows you how you can still make it work. Here it is shown with a DigitalOcean (DO) droplet initially running Debian, then replacing the original filesystem with ZFS and installing NixOS on it. | ||