Installing JARVIS OS

The fastest way to run JARVIS OS is the pre-built ISO from the Download page, which always shows the latest GitHub release along with its SHA-512 checksum.

1. Boot from USB

Flash the ISO to a USB drive using dd, Ventoy, or Balena Etcher, then boot from it — you’ll land in the live environment.

sudo dd if=jarvisos-*.iso of=/dev/sdX bs=4M status=progress conv=fsync

2. Live environment

The live session gives you a fully functional JARVIS OS with KDE Plasma 6. Test the AI features, explore the system, and run the jarvis CLI before committing to an install.

3. Install to disk

Launch the Calamares installer from the desktop for a guided installation to your hard drive — automatic partitioning, user setup, and bootloader configuration included.

Calamares installs but post-install configuration is still being stabilized — see Troubleshooting if something doesn’t come up correctly after first boot.

4. Virtual machine

JARVIS OS runs well in VirtualBox or QEMU/KVM. Allocate at least 4 GB RAM and 20 GB disk for comfortable usage with local LLM inference.

qemu-system-x86_64 -m 4G -smp 4 -cdrom jarvisos-*.iso

Prefer to build it yourself?

See The Seven-Script Build Pipeline to produce your own ISO from source instead of using the pre-built release.