FAI ISO?

[Michael Senizaiz]

>From memory.  Fix for reality.

Partition and format your USB (if you are using an old fdisk, start at
sector 8 or later).  Format as ext3.
Mounting as something like '/mnt/fai_usb' and the iso as '/mnt/fai_cd'.
 Assuming /dev/sdb1 as your formatted USB device

mount -o loop /path/to/iso /mnt/fai_cd
mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/fai_usb
rsync -avp /mnt/fai_cd/. /mnt/fai_usb/.
cd /mnt/fai_usb/live/filesystem.dir
mount -o bind /proc proc
mount -o bind /dev dev
mount -o bind /sys sys
chroot . /bin/bash
grub-install --no-floppy /dev/sdb
(This may take a while if the buffer is still syncing)
exit
umount proc sys dev
cd /mnt
umount fai_usb

And there you go!


On Tue, Jun 4, 2013 at 2:34 PM, John G. Heim <jheim at math.wisc.edu> wrote:

> I know this is a long shot but I am hoping someone has an answer. I have
> been booting from a CD when I install FAI. I now have a machine without a
> CD-ROM drive. I know I should set up PXE eventually but for today, i'd like
> to boot from a flash drive. I know I can just copy an ISO file to a thumb
> drive to make it boot. This works with the debian netinst image and grml.
> So if your debian netinst images is called debian.iso, you can do this to
> create a bootable thumbedrive:
>
> cp debian.iso /dev/sdb
>
>
> But if I do that with my FAI ISO, it does not work. The thumb drive is not
> bootable. I did double check that my FAI ISO image is bootable. If I write
> it to a CD, it boots.
>
> wodim fai.iso
>
> This gives me a bootable CD. But the following does not give me a bottable
> thumb drive:
>
> cp fai.iso /dev/sdb
>
> --
> ---
> John G. Heim, 608-263-4189, jheim at math.wisc.edu
>
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