Re: Bootable Flash Drive Installation Scripts - Mailing list pgsql-advocacy

From Robert Bernier
Subject Re: Bootable Flash Drive Installation Scripts
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Msg-id 200902180715.36011.robert.bernier5@sympatico.ca
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In response to Bootable Flash Drive Installation Scripts  (Richard Broersma <richard.broersma@gmail.com>)
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Hello Richard,

On Tuesday 17 February 2009 19:40:07 Richard Broersma wrote:

> Has anyone or can anyone develop(ed) a shell script to install the

> various .iso and .img files onto a flash drive?

Please refer to this posting that I made on advocacy on this subject:

> > - mount the stick and copy the image over to a FAT16 partition, which

> > should be the primary one and set as bootable too as for example:

> > mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt

> > cp -rf pg-live-image /mnt/

> >

> > - unmount and execute the following command (assumes requisite system

> > tools "apt-get install syslinux mtools"):

> > syslinux -f /dev/sdb1

> > lilo -M /dev/sdb

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Robert Bernier

PostgreSQL Business Intelligence Analyst & Architect

B.Sc. Systems Engineering

http://pg-live.info

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