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== Requirements == | == Requirements == | ||
| − | You'll need a stick with more than | + | You'll need a stick with more space than the iso something like 800mb should do |
| − | Format it as | + | Format it as fat, or anything should work really. I have only tested fat |
| − | + | Download the Iso image, and copy to usb drive. | |
| − | + | Now if youre server has 1.2gb ram or more. Make the image bootable (see later) | |
| + | if not, you will need to. | ||
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| + | ONLY do this if you dont have enough ram. The boot.iso is NOT as polished as the "real image" | ||
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| + | mkdir /mnt/iso | ||
| + | mount /<usbname>/<smeiso> /mnt/iso -o loop -t iso9660 | ||
| + | cp /mnt/iso/images/boot.iso /<usbname> | ||
| + | umount /mnt/iso | ||
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| + | this will mount the iso, in mnt/iso, and copy the boot.iso to the usb stick. | ||
| + | and unmount the boot.iso again | ||
== Creating USB stick == | == Creating USB stick == | ||
Revision as of 14:20, 5 December 2011
Problem
Imagine you have a server that wont boot from USB CDROM drive or have no internal CDROM drive. Or even you prefer to install from a USB stick instead a physical media.
Solution
Create a USB stick with SME software on it
Requirements
You'll need a stick with more space than the iso something like 800mb should do
Format it as fat, or anything should work really. I have only tested fat
Download the Iso image, and copy to usb drive. Now if youre server has 1.2gb ram or more. Make the image bootable (see later) if not, you will need to.
ONLY do this if you dont have enough ram. The boot.iso is NOT as polished as the "real image"
mkdir /mnt/iso mount /<usbname>/<smeiso> /mnt/iso -o loop -t iso9660 cp /mnt/iso/images/boot.iso /<usbname> umount /mnt/iso
this will mount the iso, in mnt/iso, and copy the boot.iso to the usb stick. and unmount the boot.iso again
Creating USB stick
copy the file /images/boot.iso, and renamed to SMEboot.iso.
On USB edit the menu.lst to include this
title find and load SMEboot.iso fallback 7 find --set-root /SMEboot.iso map /ubcd.iso (0xff) || map --mem /SMEboot.iso (0xff) map --hook chainloader (0xff) savedefault --wait=2
