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== Requirements ==
 
== Requirements ==
  
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You'll need a stick with more space than the iso something like 800mb should do
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You'll need a usb stick with more space than the sme.iso something like 800mb should do
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Tested with Sme 7.3-51 and 8R6b, so download one or the other iso file
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Format it as fat, or anything should work really. I have only tested fat
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the latest grub4dos, no Grub/Grub2 wont do. download from [http://sourceforge.net/projects/grub4dos/]
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Download the Iso image, and copy to usb drive.
 
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Now if youre server has 1.2gb ram or more. Make the image bootable (see later)
 
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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
 
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mount /<usbname>/<smeiso> /mnt/iso -o loop -t iso9660
 
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cp /mnt/iso/images/boot.iso /<usbname>
 
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umount /mnt/iso
 
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this will mount the iso, in mnt/iso, and copy the boot.iso to the usb stick.
 
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and unmount the boot.iso again
 
  
 
== Creating USB stick ==
 
== Creating USB stick ==

Revision as of 14:24, 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 usb stick with more space than the sme.iso something like 800mb should do Tested with Sme 7.3-51 and 8R6b, so download one or the other iso file the latest grub4dos, no Grub/Grub2 wont do. download from [1]

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
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