Checking The Usb Drive Format And Suitability - Avaya Aura System Platform Installing And Configuring

Using USB drive for System Platform installation

Checking the USB drive format and suitability

1. Insert the USB drive.
2. Type the command dmesg.
3. Scroll to the end of the output and search for a block of lines beginning with usb-
4. Run the command fdisk -l /dev/sdb on the USB drive found in the output of
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different versions of these packages or have other dependencies, Avaya
recommends that you install these packages using yum.
This command can produce quite a lot of output so you may wish to pipe the output
to less.
storage: device found at.
A typical screen output can appear as shown below:
the dmesg command to find the partition information.
The system displays output similar to the one shown below:
Note:
Ensure that the bootable flag is set on the partition. This is shown with a * in the
Boot column. The format of the partition must be W95 FAT 32. If the output is
not similar to the above one, follow the task
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Formatting a USB drive on page
April 2010