In this step, we will setup a USB stick that will install our server operating system.
Just consider it to be like installing Windows 11 into a new computer.
Begin Preparation
You will need in this step:
- USB Stick, minimum 4GB
- Keyboard
- External Monitor (just this step)
- (Personal Computer) to configure the USB Stick to be bootable.
In this step, our goal is to install Ubuntu Server operating system, into our small USB Stick. Yep.
Depending on your Personal Computer operating system, follow any of this relevant steps.
Careful
We are about to format the USB stick, be sure it is an unused stick, or perform some backup first.
What's now?
By now, you should have a bootable USB device. Not sure what it does? Don't worry, we will now head over to the next step!
Notice how we have not touch anything on our homelab server yet.