This page is intended for users that would like to install Phyllome OS permanently on their computer. To use it as a live system, please see this page.
Installing Phyllome OS means booting from a bootable USB flash drive and fetching an online kickstart file. A kickstart file contains instructions to automatically deploy an operating system.
As of now, it is only possible to deploy Phyllome OS from an official Fedora Everything ISO file.
The following section illustrates how to change the boot order temporarily. The process to change the boot order depends on your current computer platform. Please follow the instruction that matches your platform.
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GRUB is universal bootloader that ship with many Linux distributions. It is a software made to find and load operating systems during a boot process.
One needs to alter the GRUB instructions before the USB flash drive can load the Anaconda Installer, which is normally used to install Fedora and other related distributions. If Fedora is already installed on your computer, and if your GRUB is not password protected, which is the default behavior, you may also be able to follow the instructions below.
quiet
.GRUB defaults to the US keyboard layout. Have a look at this online resource to find the corresponding keys if you are not using a US keyboard layout
Danger Zone: the next instruction will trigger a process that will automatically destroy any data located on the internal disk present in your computer
quiet
and write exactly the following inst.ks=https://ks.phyllo.me/dii
, then press Ctrl + x simultaneously or F10. This command will trigger the automated installation of Phyllome OS.The shortened URL
https://ks.phyllo.me/dii
points to the latest Desktop version of Phyllome OS, tweaked for Intel CPUs and GPUs (gen 5th to gen 9th). The shortened link points to the kickstart file available here: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/PhyllomeOS/phyllomeos/main/dishes/phyllome-desktop-intelcpu-intelgpu.cfg. Any valid kickstart file may be used.
If you wish to learn more about how kickstart files are used to create Phyllome OS, please have a look at the official git repository.
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By default, Phyllome OS is set to use the fr-CH keyboard layout. This keyboard layout is used by people living in Romandy, Switzerland, which is also where the original author of Phyllome OS is from.
Phyllome OS is not designed to be a safe place for storing persistent or personal data, as it doesn't provide full-disk encryption by default. Phyllome OS instead relies on filesystem-level encryption to protect virtual machine disks, and encourage its users to rely on another layer of encryption as provided by their operating system inside their virtual machine, whenever available.
Phyllome OS will eventually rely on the user password as provided here to decrypt the folder containing virtual machine disks. Loosing the password will mean loosing any access to the virtual machine disks.
Congratulations, you are done!
Don't forget to remove the USB flash drive from your computer, so that next time your computer will boot, it will use the internal disk where Phyllome OS has been deployed.
Please go to the Get Started section to learn what to do next.