Frequently Asked Questions

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What is AerynOS?

See these blog posts to get an idea:

• https://aerynos.com/blog/2025/03/25/hello-aerynos/
• https://aerynos.com/blog/2025/03/29/aerynos-the-os-as-infrastructure/

Where can I get help or report a problem with AerynOS?

See this post by our founder.

Where is the actual FAQ?

The FAQ is now maintained at https://aerynos.dev/faq/

How can I help out with the FAQ?

If you have a proposal for the FAQ, put it in a new post in the Q&A category and notify me there, and we'll see about integrating it in the official FAQ.

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Graphical guide for partitioning disks for VM use in AerynOS Live environment

Here is a guide to installing AerynOS. Specifically how to pre-format the drives in the live environment for use in a Virtual Machine (hence no XBOOTLDR partition).

1. Open up gparted and select the correct drive in the top right
   
2. Go to Device, Create Partition Table
   
3. Select GPT. Please note that this will essentially delete everything on the drive so make sure you select the correct one.
   
4. Then go to Partition, New and recreate this, I've gone with a 2gb (2048 MiB) partition size for the esp. You can go upto 4096 MiB for this partition but if using on an external drive, it's probably not needed for now. Make sure to use fat32 for the filesystem
   
5. Then do the same thing (Partition, New) and create an XFS partition with the remaining space.
   
6. Press the tick to apply all operations and apply.
   
7. Right click on the esp partition and select manage flags. Tick esp, it will automatically tick boot and untick msftdata. Now close without any other changes (ie you only have esp and boot selected)
   

You can now close out of gparted and open up the installer to install AerynOS.

(Thank you to @NomadicCore for writing this up and capturing the associated screenshots)