InstallationFromUSBstick: retired from v.10 on, left for reference

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 than XXX

Format it as XXXX

mount SME server image on a linux machine:

mount /path/to/image/SME8b7.iso /mnt/pendrive

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