Installing Redox on a Drive

Once you have downloaded or built your ISO image, you can install it to your internal HDD or SSD. Please back up your system before attempting to install. Note that at this time (Release 0.8.0), you can't install onto a USB device, or use a USB device for your Redox filesystem, but you can install from it.

After starting your livedisk system from a USB device or CD/DVD, log in as the user named user with an empty password, click on the Redox OS icon in the Orbital bottom bar to open the app menu, then open the "System" app category and click on the "Redox Installer" app.

Of if you want to launch it from the terminal run the following command:

sudo redox_installer_gui

If you are using the server variant or want to use the TUI interface open a terminal window and type:

sudo redox_installer_tui

If Redox recognizes your device, it will prompt you to select a device to install on. Choose carefully, as it will erase all the data on that device. Note that if your device is not recognized, it may offer you the option to install on disk/live (the in-memory livedisk). Don't do this, as it will crash Redox.

You will be prompted for a redoxfs password. This is for a encrypted filesystem. Leave the password empty and press Enter if an encrypted filesystem is not required.

Once the installation completes, power off your computer, remove the USB device, power on your computer and you are ready to start using Redox!