Sun Microsystems X4640 Preparing the USB Flash Drive, How to Get the Syslinux and SIA Software

Preparing the USB Flash Drive

▼How to Get the Syslinux and SIA Software

Note – Support for creating a USB flash drive version of SIA was introduced with SIA version 2.0.144 and is provided as a downloadable package from the Sun download site. Earlier versions of SIA will not support running SIA from USB flash drive media.

1Go to the SIA main page on the Sun web site: http://www.sun.com/systemmanagement/sia.jsp

2Navigate to your server’s download page.

3Select and download the following files to a convenient file folder on a Windows XP or Linux (Red Hat or SUSE) system.

■syslinux-version.zip (where version is 3.52 or later)

■sia-version.zip (where version is 2.0.144 or later)

Note – These files may be available separately or bundled in a single package.

Preparing the USB Flash Drive

This section describes how to prepare the USB flash drive in order to use it to run the SIA software on your server. You can use either a Windows or a Linux system to prepare the USB flash drive. The procedure is different for Windows and Linux systems; both procedures are described below.

■“How to Prepare the USB Flash Drive on a Windows XP System” on page 64

■“How to Prepare the USB Flash Drive on a Linux (Red Hat/SUSE) System” on page 66

▼How to Prepare the USB Flash Drive on a Windows XP System

1Extract (unzip) the contents of the downloaded syslinux-version.ziparchive file.

Where version represents the Syslinux version number.

2Insert the USB flash drive into a USB 2.0 port.

3After Windows has found the new hardware, double-click on My Computer from the desktop.

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