Re: Kickstart using USB Flash Drive

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Rebecca.R.Hepper@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
I am using RH 9.  If I do a 'dd' to copy the bootdisk.img to my USB flash
drive, I can kickstart a system successfully.  I want to kickstart
additional systems that require modules not available in the bootdisk.img
although they are available in the drvnet.img.  Is there a way to get both
the bootdisk.img and drvnet.img on one USB flash drive so I don't have to
utilize a separate driver disk?  Or is there a way to increase whatever
size limit is on the image file so I can add all the modules I need to the
bootdisk.img then copy it to the USB flash drive?


This is really easy. You can just use syslinux, and the initrd with every module.

1)Format the usb stick drive as one big fat32 partition.*
2)copy everything in the cdrom's isolinux directory to the base directory of the usb stick. (You don't need isolinux.bin, boot.cat, and TRANS.TBL)
3)rename isolinux.cfg to syslinux.cfg
4)Optional you may want to use the initrd-everthing out of the images/pxe directory on the cdrom.
5)Install syslinux on the usb stick drive. syslinux /dev/(device).

* I find that mkdosfs doesn't like to format an entire device. So you may need to do the following:
cat /dev/sd(whatever) >usb.stick
mkdosfs usb.stick
cat usb.stick > /dev/sd(whatever)

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