USB Installs

Introduction

Many new hardware boxes come with no CDROM Drives but they will generally have USB connectors and possibly hard disks in them. Many distros now come in hybrid formats and can be installed from USB storage devices by "dd"-ing the iso across. SME upto and including version 8 does not have a hybrid iso as yet.

SAIL ISO USB Install

The name of the iso should follow the SMEServer ISO naming format like smeserver* ending with -i386 or other architecture. This is imperative for the default boot img to work. If the grub loader fails copy the grldr file to the root of the boot drive like sda1. To do so, use any linux live distro like Knoppix, PuppyLinux, CentOS Live, etc.,.