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  • That’s an interesting problem in computer science. Generally it’s called “bootstrapping” when you build a process that is used to build another process. For instance, compilers like gcc are bootstrapped from a purpose built compiler compiler but then gcc compiles its own source to result in the final product. But that can be done on one machine. Bootstrapping a machine from bare metal pretty much requires another machine.