# Booting from a USB Drive

For systems without CD drive, the NixOS live CD can be booted from a USB stick. For non-UEFI installations, unetbootin will work. For UEFI installations, you should mount the ISO, copy its contents verbatim to your drive, then either:

- Change the label of the disk partition to the label of the ISO (visible with the blkid command), or

- Edit `loader/entries/nixos-livecd.conf` on the drive and change the `root=` field in the `options` line to point to your drive (see the documentation on `root=` in the kernel documentation for more details).