Kickstart using USB Flash Drive

[Rebecca.R.Hepper at seagate.com]

I am utilizing the pxeboot image now.  When I used the instructions Samuel
sent to create a bootable flash drive, I used the initrd.img from the
pxeboot directory rather than the usual initrd.img.

Thanks for the assistance!



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I believe you need to dd the whole disk image and not just initrd.img.
vmlinuz needs to be located on the first sector to boot.

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Thanks for the clarification.  I'm still a bit confused though.  On the
RH 9 CDs, the pxeboot dir contains initrd.img and vmlinuz.  The
initrd.img has all the modules I require.  If I 'dd' only the initrd.img
to my USB flash drive, the computer won't boot off it - the computer
boots up as normal. What else do I need to 'dd' to the flash drive?
Where do my syslinux.cfg and boot.msg files go when utilizing the pxe
boot image?




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On Wed, Apr 28, 2004 at 03:40:02PM -0500, Rebecca.R.Hepper at seagate.com
wrote:
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> I did look into doing PXE installs quite some time ago but it wasn't a

> viable option for my situation.  I would rather stick the bootdisk.img
plus
> any additional drivers on my USB flash drive if there is a way to do
that.
>
My point wasn't to do pxe installs, it was that the pxe boot image is an
oversized floppy image that is basically a combination of the
bootdisk.img and drvnet.img, stick it on your usb drive and you probably
won't need to do anything else.

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