Installation

Welcome to the IPFire Installation Guide. These pages will help you to install IPFire on your system.

All you need is just fifteen minutes' time and to follow these steps:

On bare-metal hardware

• Step 1: Check the prerequisites
• Step 2: Prepare the installation media
• Step 3: Run the installer
• Step 4: Initial setup
• Step 5: Network Setup
• Step 6: Internet Connection Setup

• Step 7: Next Steps

• Serial Console

In The Cloud

• Amazon Web Services
• Exoscale
• Hetzner Cloud

Virtual Environments

For testing and development purposes only, you can also install IPFire in a virtual machine:

• Oracle Virtual Box

Video Tutorial

There is a video tutorial by Jim's Garage with a detailed explanation of the installation process and first steps.

Migration To New Hardware

If you want to migrate to new hardware, it's not usually necessary to reinstall IPFire. There are a commonly only few important things to do.