Sun Microsystems X4640 manual Unmount the USB flash drive

Setting BIOS Parameters and Booting Off the SIA USB Flash Drive

Note – In the next step you will need to specify the mount point. If autofs is running, it might have auto–mounted the drive partition to some other mount point. If this happens, unmount it by entering the command:

umount /dev/sdX1

9Mount the drive to a mount point by entering the command:

# mount -t vfat /dev/sdX1 /mnt

Where X is the drive letter for the USB flash drive (for example, /dev/sda or /dev/sdb), and 1 indicates the first partition. For this example, the mount point is/mnt.

10Extract the contents of the SIA-version.ziparchive file to the USB flash drive by entering the following command:

# unzip -q -d /mnt ~/path/SIA-version.zip -x “source/*”

Where path represents the path to the directory where the .zip file is located, andversion represents the SIA version number. The “source/*” parameter excludes the source files from the extraction to save time and disk space.

11Unmount the USB flash drive:

# umount /mnt

12Remove the flash drive from client machine.

The USB flash drive is now ready to boot SIA. To begin the OS installation using the SIA USB flash drive, see “Setting BIOS Parameters and Booting Off the SIA USB Flash Drive” on page 69.

Setting BIOS Parameters and Booting Off the SIA USB Flash Drive

This section describes how to set the BIOS parameters on your server and boot SIA off the USB flash drive. The procedures in this section refer to the server upon which you are installing an OS.

Note – You must be set up to view the system console boot messages.

■“How to Set the BIOS Parameters and Boot Off the SIA USB Flash Drive” on page 70

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