Installing as single boot

The following section will guide you through the steps to install Athena OS as baremetal by covering all the possible choices you could set.

Install Athena OS as single boot

Once prepared the setup as described in Installation prepare, and rebooted the system with your plugged USB drive containing the Athena OS installation media, according to your boot mode (EFI or BIOS/Legacy), you will be shown:

for EFI boot, select Athena OS install medium or:

for BIOS/Legacy boot, select Boot Athena OS (x86_64, BIOS, open source).

Once you land on the Live Environment, if you need to connect to Internet by WiFi, click on the network icon on the top bar:

Click on Available networks and select your WiFi network:

If the WiFi network is password-protected, type its password to connect to it:

Tip

In case your Internet connection is restricted, please use a VPN service. To set a VPN, click on the network icon on the top bar and select VPN Connections -> Add a VPN connection…:

Then, select the VPN you need to set:

Finally, follow the Aegis TUI Installer chapter until the Partitioning section.

Partitioning

Aegis TUI

If you are using Aegis TUI, on Partitioning, select Erase Disk or Replace according to your need:

Choose if you want to install a Swap partition or not

and select the desired swap size

Then, it will be asked if you wish to encrypt the root partition

Finally, confirm the partitioning setting you chose

Then, continue to follow the Aegis TUI guide.