Introduction

With Fedora CoreOS we currently have two ways to do a bare metal install and get our disk image onto the spinning rust of a “non-cloud” server. You can use coreos.inst* kernel arguments to automate the install, or you can boot the Live ISO and get a bash prompt where you can then run coreos-installer directly after doing whatever hardware/network discovery that is necessary. This means you either do a simple automated install where you provide all of the information up front or you are stuck doing something interactive. However, because we use a Live ISO that boots full Fedora CoreOS there is a third option.