Re: Bootable Flash Drive Installation Scripts

From: Robert Bernier <robert(dot)bernier5(at)sympatico(dot)ca>
To: pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org
Cc: Richard Broersma <richard(dot)broersma(at)gmail(dot)com>
Subject: Re: Bootable Flash Drive Installation Scripts
Date: 2009-02-18 15:15:35
Message-ID: 200902180715.36011.robert.bernier5@sympatico.ca
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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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