How to perfom a clean install?

[MKailas]

Hello,

I am sorry if this is a silly topic but I have been having issues with my installation for a bit now and after messing about a bit I think a made things worse.

I now want to try and perform a clean install of HexOS but I am not sure how to do that. I have a usb with the OS on it from when I first installed it but I don't know how to to a clean install and start all over.

If anyone can help I would really appeciate it, thank you.

[Manders]

I am not able to check it myself at the moment. But I would recommend you to attach a display and a keyboard to your server, also your USB with the OS.

When you restart the server it should tell you a way to stop the boot sequence and enter your BIOS. From the BIOS you can set the USB as your boot device and then restart the server again.

Now it should boot into the HexOS install sequence where it will reinstall everything from scratch, and you can decide whether or not you want to wipe your HDD/SSD pools.

I recommend you to get the newest HexOS ISO file and put that on your USB before you go through this process 🙂

[Todd Miller]

I just did this with the direction of a moderator/admin.  I had to make a Linux distro on a usb drive then start it in demo.  Once that was done I deleted all the partitions using gpart I think.  Once all partitions were gone the use you created should load after you do the standard messing around to boot from  USB drive.  Since I needed that to boot to linux, it was all pretty straight forward.  My issue was with the pool so I needed to rebuild everything including the pool itself.  As stated above, you may not need to mess with the drives.  Ive never been that lucky though.