Booting from a usb key fob

[LAWRENCE.SORRILLO at HAMPTONU.EDU]

Hi:

I am also interested in some of the stop you took to accomplish
this...especially preloading the drivers.

Thanks.

-----Original Message-----
From: kickstart-list-bounces at redhat.com
[mailto:kickstart-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Klaus Steden
Sent: Friday, November 04, 2005 11:00 AM
To: Discussion list about Kickstart
Subject: Re: Booting from a usb key fob

>  
> I remember a brief discussion on this not too long ago.
> I have formatted and loaded a 256 MB with the first release cdrom but
I
> cannot get it to be booted from.
> 
> Can someone point me to the right location for instructions on this?
> 
> I am loading RHEL3 update6
> 
I've successfully run kickstart from USB keys with EL4. Haven't tried
EL3, but
it was fairly straightforward ...

I made an disk image file the same way one would make a cramfs image
file,
making sure to put 'ldlinux.sys' (install the syslinux RPM on your build
machine) on it. From there, it was easy enough to just dump it to
/dev/sda (my
USB key) using 'dd'.

If EL3 makes sure to preload its drivers properly, I think the process
should
be fairly straightforward.

I can privately pass along some of the build steps I use to make it go,
if
you're interested.

Klaus

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