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Comment by rickypp

7 hours ago

I have no problem with them offering a ready-to-run hardware solution for Home Assistant, but I am annoyed that it's probably a motivating factor for why there isn't a self-installing image for HA on BYO hardware...

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ArchOversight  6 hours ago

https://www.home-assistant.io/installation/generic-x86-64/

you mean an image like this?

This is what I've been running on my generic x86-64 system for a couple of years now, 0 issues. Even migrated to a newer system recently because I wanted something that was slightly faster for ESPHome compilations.

  • rickypp  5 hours ago

    "self-installing" being the key point. Those instructions require you to use some other piece of software to write the image onto your boot disk. In my case I used an Ubuntu livecd to download and write the image to the machine. It's obviously not a showstopper but it is slightly annoying.

    • troupo  5 hours ago

      > hose instructions require you to use some other piece of software to write the image onto your boot disk.

      I mean... That is how a lot of OSes are distributed: by giving you an ISO that you burn onto a USB dongle to install.

      > In my case I used an Ubuntu livecd to download and write the image to the machine.

      So... Same thing?

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