help

[Spooner, Darren]

I have down load the gPXE.usb for my usb drive, but I can't get it to
install on the usb drive

I am new to linux can someone help me?

I use mainly Windows to do all my work. Can I make a gpxe usb drive from
windows?

If I do it from linux what version of linux do I use?



Darren

[Stefan Hajnoczi]

The gpxe.usb image is designed to be written to a USB stick and will
overwrite all data on the USB stick - make sure to back up your files
first!

You can make gPXE USB sticks using dd for Windows: http://www.chrysocome.net/dd

With Windows or Linux, you write gpxe.usb to the USB device like this:
dd if=gpxe.usb of=<USB device>
where you replace <USB device> with the path to your USB device.

Also note that you need to give the path to gpxe.usb if you are not in
the directory that contains gpxe.usb.

Under Linux, you can see the disks attached to your system using:
ls -l /dev/disk/by-path

Look for a path that includes "usb" in it. Ignore paths that end in
"-part", they are partitions and gpxe.usb should be written to the
whole device not a partition.

I don't know how to find the device path under Windows, sorry. Maybe
the dd for Windows link above can help.

Stefan

[Shao Miller]

...I don't know how to find the device path under Windows, sorry. Maybe
the dd for Windows link above can help.

With DD for Windows, you do:

dd --list

To find the available devices. One of them should correspond to your
USB device. Be careful! Additionally, drives are usually also
available as:

\\.\PhysicalDrive0
\\.\PhysicalDrive1
etc.

_Typically_, 0 will be your boot HDD. So if you only have your boot HDD
and the USB stick attached to the computer, \\.\PhysicalDrive1 will be
your USB stick. Be careful!

Note that this is in regards to gpxe.usb. You might be interested in
shifting discussion over to the gPXE general discussion mailing list,
instead of the Etherboot one. I've carbon-copied this list. Details
can be found at http://etherboot.org/mailman/listinfo/gpxe

- Shao Miller

[Spooner, Darren]

Yes I did and made sure I selcted the usb

Sent from my Windows Mobile® phone.

-----Original Message-----
From: Shao Miller <***@yrdsb.edu.on.ca>
Sent: Tuesday, January 12, 2010 9:00 AM
To: Spooner, Darren <***@madisonal.gov>
Cc: etherboot-***@lists.sourceforge.net <etherboot-***@lists.sourceforge.net>; gpxe <***@etherboot.org>
Subject: Re: [Etherboot-discuss] help

...I don't know how to find the device path under Windows, sorry. Maybe
the dd for Windows link above can help.

With DD for Windows, you do:

dd --list

To find the available devices. One of them should correspond to your
USB device. Be careful! Additionally, drives are usually also
available as:

\\.\PhysicalDrive0
\\.\PhysicalDrive1
etc.

_Typically_, 0 will be your boot HDD. So if you only have your boot HDD
and the USB stick attached to the computer, \\.\PhysicalDrive1 will be
your USB stick. Be careful!

Note that this is in regards to gpxe.usb. You might be interested in
shifting discussion over to the gPXE general discussion mailing list,
instead of the Etherboot one. I've carbon-copied this list. Details
can be found at http://etherboot.org/mailman/listinfo/gpxe

- Shao Miller