RE: Kickstarting from a USB Flash Drive?

["Harner Keith-FKH006" <Keith Harner freescale com>]

If the BIOS does not support USB booting you cannot.
Install a PXE boot server on your kickstart server.

However, if your system does not support USB boot devices it likely does
not support PXE either.

Good opportunity to upgrade!!!! 

-----Original Message-----
From: kickstart-list-bounces redhat com
[mailto:kickstart-list-bounces redhat com] On Behalf Of Shabazian, Chip
Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2006 10:04 AM
To: Discussion list about Kickstart
Subject: RE: Kickstarting from a USB Flash Drive?

You need to use the diskboot.img file on your USB key, but be aware that
this will wipe it out:

dd if=diskboot.img of=/dev/sda (assuming sda is your USB drive)

I'm assuming RHEL 4 

-----Original Message-----
From: kickstart-list-bounces redhat com
[mailto:kickstart-list-bounces redhat com] On Behalf Of Robert Denton
Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2006 9:45 AM
To: Discussion list about Kickstart
Subject: Kickstarting from a USB Flash Drive?

Hi all.  I have a question regarding my kickstart setup that may be a
bit out of the scope of this discussion list but I'll give it a try:

Currently, I boot new systems to a USB-CDROM drive that has the first
install cd in it. I then type:  linux ks=http://..... at the boot
prompt.

I'd love to be able to do the same thing but from a USB Flash Drive
(2 gig Corsair Flash Voyager). So I copied the contents of the 1st
install cd to the flash drive. Unfortaunately all the boot options in
the BIOS don't seem to recognize the USB flash drive. Any suggestions?

Thanks!

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