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Installing on Bare-Metal

Install Kairos on real hardware!

Installation media

Download the Kairos ISO of your choice. See the Getting Started guide for more information.

When deploying on a bare metal server, directly flash the image into a USB stick. There are multiple ways to do this:

From the CLI

dd if=/path/to/iso of=/path/to/dev bs=4MB

From the GUI

For example using an application like balenaEtcher but can be any other application which allows you to write bootable USBs.

Last modified May 22, 2025: Extract quick start (#408) (acea79e)