Creating A Bootable Usb Flash Drive By Using The Dd Command; Creating A Bootable Usb Flash Drive By Using Akeo Rufus - Nvidia DGX A100 User Manual

If you are creating a bootable USB flash drive, follow the instructions for the platform that
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you are using:
On a text-only Linux distribution, see "Creating a Bootable USB Flash Drive by Using
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the dd Command".
On Windows, see "Creating a Bootable USB Flash Drive by Using Akeo Rufus".
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If you are creating a bootable DVD-ROM, you can use any of the methods described in
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"Burning the ISO on to a
9.2.3.1 Creating a Bootable USB Flash Drive by Using the dd
Command
On a Linux system, you can use the dd command to create a bootable USB flash drive that
contains the DGX A100 software image.
Note: To ensure that the resulting flash drive is bootable, use the dd command to
perform a device bit copy of the image. If you use other commands to perform a simple
file copy of the image, the resulting flash drive might not be bootable.
Ensure that the following prerequisites are met:
The correct DGX A100 software image is saved to your local disk. For more information,
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see "Obtaining the DGX A100 Software ISO Image and Checksum File" .
The USB flash drive capacity is at least 8 GB.
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Plug the USB flash drive into one of the USB ports of your Linux system.
1.
Obtain the device name of the USB flash drive by running the lsblk command.
2.
lsblk
You can identify the USB flash drive from its size.
As root, convert and copy the image to the USB flash drive.
3.
$ sudo dd if=path-to-software-image bs=2048 of=usb-drive-device-name
!
CAUTION: The dd command erases all data on the device that you specify in the of option
of the command. To avoid losing data, ensure that you specify the correct path.
9.2.3.2 Creating a Bootable USB Flash Drive by Using Akeo
Rufus
On a Windows system, you can use the "Akeo Reliable USB Formatting Utility (Rufus)" to
create a bootable USB flash drive that contains the DGX A100 software image.
Ensure that the following prerequisites are met:
DGX A100 System
DVD" on the Ubuntu Community Help Wiki.
Updating and Restoring the Software
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