User Guide

Where path is the folder to which you extracted syslinux and Xisthe drive letter for your USB

ash drive (for example, A:, B:, etc.)

This creates a le ldlinux.sys onto the drive and make it bootable.

Extract (unzip) the contents of the downloaded SIA-version.zip archive le to the USB ash

drive.

Where version represents the SIA version number.

To remove the USB ash drive, click the Safe to Remove Hardware icon and remove the ash

drive from the system.

The USB ash drive is now ready to boot SIA. To begin the OS installation using the SIA USB

ash drive, see

“Setting BIOS Parameters and Booting O the SIA USB Flash Drive” on

page 69

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How to Prepare the USB Flash Drive on a Linux (Red Hat/SUSE) System

This procedure requires the use of parted utility version 1.8.6 or later. Do not use earlier

versions of parted.

Extract (unzip) the contents of the syslinux-version.zip archive le.

# unzip syslinux-version.zip

Where version represents the Syslinux version number.

Insert the USB ash drive into a working USB 2.0 port.

Use the tail command to identify the USB ash drive’s device name.

# tail /var/log/messages

You should see the device name (such as, sda or sdb). Example output is shown below:

Nov 12 13:19:29 server kernel: scsi 4:0:0:0: Lexar, Inc. USBdisk PQ: 0 ANSI: 0 CCS

Nov 12 13:19:29 server kernel: sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] 1030750208 512-byte hardware sectors (1030 MB)

Nov 12 13:19:29 server kernel: sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off

Nov 12 13:19:29 server kernel: sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through

Nov 12 13:19:29 server kernel: sdb:

Nov 12 13:19:29 server kernel: sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI removable disk

Nov 12 13:19:29 server kernel: sd 4:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0

Caution – Be sure to conrm and make a note of the device name of the USB ash drive

(/dev/sda, /dev/sdb , etc.). The instructions listed here require you to delete existing

partition(s) on the USB ash disk. Making a mistake in identifying the device might cause you

to erase a hard disk.

Create a single bootable partition on the USB ash drive using parted, as follows:

BeforeYou Begin

Preparing the USB Flash Drive

Sun Installation Assistant 2.2 User's Guide for the Sun Fire X4640 Server • October 2009, Rev. A66