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Questions tagged [usb-boot]

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Bootable Windows Server 2016 USB Drive

I have 8 HP ProLiant DL380 servers that are mounted in a data center. I have to deploy Windows Server 2016 Datacenter operating system on all of them using a particular customer's (modified) ISO. Unfortunately, the only way I can access this…
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Why doesn't the Internal USB port boot ESXi 6 on my Microserver Gen8?

I'm trying to run ESXi 6 off the Internal USB 2.0 port on a HP Microserver Gen8. No matter what I try it will not make any attempt to boot the internal USB to load the hypervisor. I installed ESXi 6 with the customised ProLiant HP image (Jan 2016).…
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Boot to remote desktop

I'm trying to find out what existing options there are out there to boot a machine into a remote desktop (RDP). Ideally the user would have a USB key and just plug it into the machine and boot via it establishing an RDP connection to their…
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Unattended installation with preseed -- give a custom device to partman-auto

I'm doing an unattended installation of Ubuntu-14.04-server with a USB drive and a preseed file on different type of servers (HP Proliant ML110, ML310, ML350). On the ML110 and ML310, the hard drive is in /dev/sda and the USB drive takes…
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Hard drive is not detected at early stage of unattended installation

I'm doing an unattended installation of Ubuntu-14.04-server with a USB drive and a preseed file on different type of servers (HP Proliant ML110, ML310, ML350). This preseed file contains multiple rules, including the configuration of partman-auto…
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HP Compaq 8200 Elite SFF won't boot from USB drive

Can't get an HP 8200 Elite Small Form Factor to boot from USB. It's done so in the past & the USB boot drive works in a different machine (HP 8440p laptop). Have tried upgrading BIOS (from 2.09 to 2.15a, then back to 2.14a) with no luck. USB drive…
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How to install windows on a server with no CD or DVD drive

I've found a few posts on this site, however my situation is different. I have a new Dell server with no OS installed. I would like to install Windows 2008 Web Edition. I have a few USB ports and Ethernet. No CD or DVD drives. Is this article the…
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Server OS on an internal USB flash drive - is this standard practice today?

While chatting with a sysadmin colleague of mine about setting up a small server for me, I found out something interesting - most servers these days apparently contain an internal USB port which can be used for attaching a boot flash drive. On one…
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Trouble Installing Ubuntu Server on PowerEdge R330 (Hardware RAID1)

I'm having trouble installing Ubuntu Server 16.04 LTS on a hardware RAID-1 setup on a new Dell PowerEdge R330 Server. I'm using a bootable USB made by Rufus-2.18. (I'm a newb to server setups, so please excuse me for anything ignorant I missed or…
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HP Proliant DL380p Gen 8 with p420i raid controller attempting to install Centos 6 or 7

I am attempting to install Centos 6 or 7 on a backup server Proliant DL380p Gen 8 with a p420i controller. The problem is when I use the intelligent provisioning built in to setup the raid and such, it only gives me 4 options to install Microsoft…
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Intsalling Linux on PowerEdge R410 via USB

I’m hoping someone can help me with the following issue. I have a Dell PowerEdge R410 and basically the Optical Drive has failed when I have been given the server. I have installed 2 SATA drives and want to install Ubuntu 11.04; however, each time I…
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Mount Bootable USB using Powershell on Hyper-V Host

Unfortunately the Hyper-V manager on my local machines returns "RPC not available" so I can't see/control my VMs. But thankfully I can RDP into the Host machine! I need - please - to understand the Powershell command-line commands to do the…
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Running memtest.exe from Windows 10 bootble USB

I used a microsft tool to create a bootable Window 10 install USB. The key contains memtest at: "H:\boot\memtest.exe" When I boot off the USB it goes into Windows 10 install - how can I run the memtest.exe? I know there lots of ways to make a…
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Creating bootable USB thumb drive from PXE boot files

Looked around and Googled but could not find a similar question. It seems most people want to take a bootable USB thumb stick and convert it into a PXE boot image. I actually need to go in the opposite direction, that is, create a bootable USB thumb…
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Unattended installation of Ubuntu from USB drive -- Not mounted correctly

I'm doing an unattended installation of Ubuntu-14.04-server with a USB drive on different type of servers (HP Proliant ML110, ML310, ML350). In some cases, the USB drive is incorrectly mounted on /media instead of /cdrom, making the installation…
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