Creating A Bootable Usb Flash Drive On Windows - HP IBRIX X9720 Administrator's Manual
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- Administrator's manual (230 pages)
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1.
Format the USB flash drive for your operating system.
2.
Copy the ISO to a Linux system.
3.
Insert a USB flash drive into the Linux system.
4.
Execute cat /proc/partitions to find the USB device partition, which is displayed as
dev/sdX. For example:
cat /proc/partitions
major minor
8
128
5.
Execute the following dd command to make USB the QR installer:
dd if=<ISO file name with path> of=/dev/sdi oflag=direct bs=1M
For example:
dd if=X9000-QRDVD-6.5.72-1.x86_64.signed.iso of=/dev/sdi oflag=direct bs=1M
4491+0 records in
4491+0 records out
4709154816 bytes (4.7 GB) copied, 957.784 seconds, 4.9 MB/s
6.
Insert the USB flash drive into the server.
7.
Boot the server from USB flash drive. (Press F1 1 and use option 3.)
8.
When the Network Storage System screen appears, enter qr to install the software.
(IBRIX X9720 cluster nodes only) If default OA and VC credentials are not being used, you
must manually initialize the credential manager immediately after exiting from the QR Restore
process. For steps on how to manually initialize the credential manager, see
X9720 or 9730 file serving node" (page
Creating a bootable USB flash drive on Windows
To create a bootable USB flash drive on Windows:
1.
Format the USB flash drive for your operating system.
2.
Download a tool for creating a virtual DVD drive. The steps in this section assume you have
downloaded Virtual CloneDrive v5.4.5.0.
http://www.slysoft.com/en/download.html
3.
Download a tool for saving the boot image to your USB flash drive. The steps in this section
assume you have downloaded ImgBurn version 2.5.7.0.
http://www.imgburn.com/index.php?act=download
4.
Download the HP StoreAll QR image to the Windows computer.
5.
Mount the HP StoreAll QR image by using a tool for creating a virtual DVD drive, such as
Virtual CloneDrive.
If you are using Virtual CloneDrive version 5.4.5.0, you would right-click the HP StoreAll QR
ISO image, and click Mount (Virtual CloneDrive) to mount the HP StoreAll QR ISO image, as
shown in the following figure.
138 Recovering a file serving node
#blocks
name
15633408
sdi
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