SUMMARY I have a third party requirement to run an operating system from a remote secured disk. The user is concerned about hard disk security but is not concerned about the risk to the remaining hardware. At this stage I am not aware which OS they are running or indeed any restrictions on which OS … Read more
I am setting up a router/nas/http/whatever server based on an ION mini-ITX board. I’ve installed Ubuntu Server on an old 160 GB drive, but it generates a lot more heat and vibrates more than my other new drive (storage). It just doesn’t fit the concept, and worse: it takes up a SATA port. As SSD’s … Read more
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 stick from PXE boot files. I have a … Read more
An HP Proliant DL380e Gen8 BIOS P73 (03/01/2013) using iLO4 suffers from USB CD/DVD drive boot issues after a reboot, as described in HP Advisory c02707749. External USB DVD drive details are: Product ID: 0x0719 Vendor ID: 0x05e3 (Genesys Logic, Inc.) Version: 0.09 Serial Number: 33 Speed: Up to 480 Mb/sec Location ID: 0x1d111000 / … Read more
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 process stop with the following message: [ Detect and mount CD-ROM ] Your installation CD-ROM couldn’t be … Read more
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 bootable memtest USB but I want to know … Read more
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 following: Mount a USB stick and make it the bootable drive for a VM … Read more
Is there a USB solution to PXE boot? I want to use ghost or clonezilla or something to image a bunch of units that don’t have on board ethernet, and no clear real way to add to it. Answer Found this for you, haven’t used it personally: Argon USB 10/100 with PXE AttributionSource : Link … Read more
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 hand this makes sense – the OS doesn’t need to use … Read more
I was trying to install ubuntu 14. onto a usb stick. It booted fine from the USB and I went through the process for a while until I got to the partitioning bit, I was thinking maybe the install was in memory because it gave me the option of partitioning the USB I had booted … Read more
