Make bootable flash drive with Ubuntu server 

Download Ubuntu server

https://ubuntu.com/download/server

https://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/releases.ubuntu.com/24.04.2/ubuntu-24.04.2-live-server-amd64.iso

Download Rufus

https://rufus.ie/en/

https://github.com/pbatard/rufus/releases/download/v4.7/rufus-4.7.exe

Make drive

Install Ubuntu 24.04 Server

Press DEL on splash screen and choose to boot from FLASH

Choose HWE kernel (it will be 6.11 not 6.9)

Choose language and disk partitions

Create user, enable SSH, reboot

Use Putty to connect to server

from now we do not need keyboard and monitor (or KVM) next steps may and better be done remotely using ssh access

see Ubuntu 24.04