Install Home Assistant Operating System on NUC but on ssd instead of sd card

Is it possible to install Home Assistant Operating System on NUC but on ssd instead of sd card easily (like the procedure https://www.home-assistant.io/installation/nuc)?
My goal is to install the HA OS, not a container, etc…

NUC’s don’t use an SD card, they do use a SSD. So yes, you can only install HassOS on the SSD.

Either pull the SSD out of the NUC and ‘burn’ the NUC image to it using another computer, or use a Linux boot USB stick to boot the NUC, download the NUC image from within the Linux demo OS, ‘burn’ the image to the SSD, reboot / pull USB stick out.

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Indeed, looks like the documentation has had a massive refurbishment recently and it’s not good. No wonder the forums are full of confused new starters.

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They basically copy / pasted the old RPi instructions for a NUC :man_facepalming:

I took notes just last week when re-doing my NUC install so I could submit a PR for the docs. I’ll hopefully get to it soon.

Yeah, this is the second set of docs I’ve come across in the last 20 minutes that’s been changed dramatically. Seems a bit daft.

Thanks a lot, makes more sense lol
I already have HA on my unraid server but since I had an old NUC, wanted to build one for my mom

well, ok, basically, replace the word sd with ssd and the procedure works flawlessly…
Thanks again guys!

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