Put ISO onto USB flash drive?

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tauren

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I got booting/installing proxmox from usb flash partially working. I set up my system bios to boot from usb flash. I formatted a usb flash drive with mkfs.ext2. I extracted all the files from the proxmox ISO and copied them to the root of the flash drive. I then ran:

cd /media/disk (root of USB flash)
sudo extlinux -i boot/isolinux
cd boot/isolinux
mv isolinux.cfg extlinux.conf

When I boot, it looks like the bootup process is searching for a cdrom device. It says:
searching for cdrom
testing again in 5 seconds
no cdrom found - unable to continue

I got proxmox installed from a usb cdrom drive no problem. But it would be so much easier to do it from a flash drive with my rack mounted servers. My servers do not have CD or floppy drives and using an external is a pain.

Can anyone help with this?

Thanks,
Tauren
 
dietmar said:
Why is it a pain to use an external CD drive?
Click to expand...

Well, first of all, I didn't have an external cd drive and had to go buy one just to try out proxmox. Secondly, my rack is full of 1U systems and there isn't really a place to set the external drive down. So I have to hold it there or rig something up with a long usb cable...

I know, these complaints aren't really a big deal. I just thought if it could be made to work, it would be nice.
 
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