Turns out the Live CD install for HAOS on x86_64 is broken. It seems to hang forever on the Grow Swap boot task. Workaround is so write the image direct to boot media. Ugh, I dont feel like moving droves around for bare metal installs.

Where there’s a network there’s a way;

target system (debian netinst iso in rescue mode)
nc -l 192.168.1.189:19000 | dd bs=16M of=/dev/sda

source system
dd bs=16M if=haos_generic-x86_64-19.4.img | nc 192.168.1.189 19000

e: formatting