[troupo]

> hose instructions require you to use some other piece of software to write the image onto your boot disk.

I mean... That is how a lot of OSes are distributed: by giving you an ISO that you burn onto a USB dongle to install.

> In my case I used an Ubuntu livecd to download and write the image to the machine.

So... Same thing?

[rickypp]

I'm worried that my writing is unclear and is being misinterpreted here.

The HAOS ISO cannot install itself onto a machine. That is my minor complaint.