Appendix A: Using Usb Drive For System Platform Installation; Using Usb Drive For Installation - Avaya Aura System Platform Installing And Configuring

Appendix A: Using USB drive for System

Using USB drive for installation

You can use a USB drive to install System Platform. This section covers the following:
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Note:
If you are not familiar with the Linux commands, Avaya recommends that you install System
Platform using a DVD.
Requirements
1. A FAT32 formatted USB drive with the bootable flag set. 2GB size is currently
2. A monitor and USB keyboard to be able to select the USB flash drive as the Avaya
3. The ISO image of the System Platform installer and enough free space to
4. Certain packages that the setup script requires to run.
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Platform installation
Checking the USB drive format and suitability
and then format the USB drive if required.
Formatting a USB drive
Setting up a USB drive
recommended. This size requirement may change depending on the size of the
installer image. If your drive is already partitioned and marked as bootable (most
drives are already marked bootable) and there is at least 2GB free space, you do
not have to erase the data on the drive. The System Platform installer software can
fit alongside your other data.
Note:
Avaya recommends that you backup the contents of the USB drive as data could
be lost. If you require a bundled template, you will require a larger amount of free
space on the USB drive.
server (S8510 or S8800) boots. For the S8510, press F11 after powering on the
system to set boot device. For the S8800, press F12 after the system initializes and
select USB Storage device.
temporarily store it on the hard disk.
Note:
Ensure that you have dosfstools and mtools installed. mtools also requires the
tcsh package to be installed. As different distros and architectures require
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