Creating A Bootable Usb Flash Drive And Installing The Hp Storeall Os Software; Creating A Bootable Usb Flash Drive On Linux; Creating A Bootable Usb Flash Drive On Windows - HP StoreAll Series Installation Manual

Creating a bootable USB flash drive and installing the HP StoreAll OS Software

Creating a bootable USB flash drive on Linux

1. Format an 8 GB USB flash drive for your operating system and download a copy of the HP
StoreAll OS Software.
2. Copy the HP StoreAll OS Software file to a Linux system.
3. Insert a USB flash drive into the Linux system.
4. Execute cat /proc/partitions to find the USB device partition, which is displayed as
dev/sdX. For example:
cat /proc/partitions
major minor
8 128
5. Execute the following dd command to make USB the QR installer:
dd if=<ISO file name with path> of=/dev/sdi oflag=direct bs=1M
For example:
dd if=X9000-QRDVD-6.5.72-1.x86_64.signed.iso of=/dev/sdi oflag=direct bs=1M
4491+0 records in
4491+0 records out
4709154816 bytes (4.7 GB) copied, 957.784 seconds, 4.9 MB/s
6. Insert the USB flash drive into the node on which the HP StoreAll OS Software is to be installed.
Initially, you must insert USB flash drive on the first node.
7. Boot the node from USB flash drive, press F1 1, and then use option 3.
8. On the Network Storage System screen, enter qr to install the software.
9. Repeat Step 6
on multiple nodes.
NOTE:
or you can use multiple USB flash drives, one for each node.
10. Do one of the following:
If you are installing the current HP StoreAll OS Software version on an HP StoreAll 8200,
8800, 9300, or 9320 Storage system,
HP StoreAll 8xxx and 93xx Storage systems" (page 55)
system.
If you are installing the current HP StoreAll OS Software version on an HP StoreAll 9730
Storage system, see
configure your HP StoreAll system.

Creating a bootable USB flash drive on Windows

NOTE: Be sure to download the IMG file, which is required for a creating a USB flash drive on
Windows. To create an IMG file from the ISO image, see
Windows" (page
1. Connect a USB flash drive to the Windows computer.
2. Use a software product to copy the bootable image file to a USB flash drive. The following
steps are from Win32 Disk Imager version 0.7. You can obtain the Win32 Disk Imager from
various freeware sites on the Internet.
NOTE:
Windows 64-bit computer.
a. Launch Win32DiskImager.exe.
#blocks name
15633408 sdi
to Step 8 on the remaining nodes. Optionally, perform these steps simultaneously
You can use the USB flash drive on one node at a time as you repeat these steps,
"Configuring the HP StoreAll 9730 Storage systems" (page 74)
204).
You may run the following instructions for Win32 Disk Imager version 0.7 on a
Creating a bootable device and installing the HP StoreAll OS Software
see"Configuring initial and subsequent nodes on
to configure your HP StoreAll
"Creating an IMG file from an ISO in
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