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@@ -12,12 +12,8 @@ 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.
-Unetbootin is recommended and the process is described in brief below.
-Note that systems which use UEFI require some additional manual steps.
-If you run into difficulty a number of alternative methods are presented
-in the <link
-xlink:href="https://nixos.org/wiki/Installing_NixOS_from_a_USB_stick">NixOS
-Wiki</link>.</para>
+<xref linkend="sec-booting-from-usb"/> describes the preferred method
+to prepare a USB stick.
<para>As an alternative to installing NixOS yourself, you can get a
running NixOS system through several other means: