Creating a Bootable USB Drive from on Linux

Before starting this process, ensure that the capacity of your USB drive is at least 4 GB.

To create a bootable USB drive from on Linux:

1. Download the D2000 or D6000 image from MOS.
2. Copy the image on the USB drive.
   Doing this, destroys all existing data on the USB drive.
3. Insert the USB drive into the computer and run the dmesg|tail command.

   [4317966.832947] usb 4-1: new SuperSpeed USB device number 39 using xhci_hcd
   [4317966.845892] usb 4-1: New USB device found, idVendor=0951, idProduct=1666
   [4317966.845893] usb 4-1: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
   [4317966.845894] usb 4-1: Product: DataTraveler 3.0
   [4317966.845895] usb 4-1: Manufacturer: Kingston
   [4317966.845896] usb 4-1: SerialNumber: E0D55EA57419E3C139680956
   [4317966.848319] usb-storage 4-1:1.0: USB Mass Storage device detected
   [4317966.848421] scsi host6: usb-storage 4-1:1.0
   [4317967.863955] scsi 6:0:0:0: Direct-Access     Kingston DataTraveler 3.0 PMAP PQ: 0 ANSI: 6
   [4317967.864524] sd 6:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg4 type 0
   [4317967.864606] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdd] 60604416 512-byte logical blocks: (31.0 GB/28.9 GiB)
   [4317967.864790] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdd] Write Protect is off
   [4317967.864792] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdd] Mode Sense: 45 00 00 00
   [4317967.864972] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdd] Write cache: disabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
   

4. In this case, the device name is "sdd", and will be referenced by Linux as “/dev/sdd”.
5. If Linux has been configured to auto-mount USB devices, unmount the partitions on the drive. Run the “df” command to detect the status of the partitions of the drive:

   In this example, the second partition of /dev/sdd is mounted and must be unmounted. In your case there may be no mounts on the USB or more.

   df
   Filesystem                                                1K-blocks       Used Available Use% Mounted on
   devtmpfs                                                   16416036          0  16416036   0% /dev
   /dev/mapper/ol_lobi7u6-root                                52403200   37842328  14560872  73% /
   /dev/sda1                                                   1038336     427060    611276  42% /boot
   /dev/mapper/ol_lobi7u6-home                               164415040  112140980  52274060  69% /home
   /dev/sdd2                                                   2755604    2389404    222896  92% /run/media/oracle/USBBoot
   

6. To unmount the partition on the drive, run the command:umount /run/media/oracle/USBBoot.
7. Run the df command again to make sure that there are no mounts matching your USB device name (/dev/sdd in the example.)
8. Insert the USB drive. At this point, the USB drive is ready to receive the image.
9. gunzip the downloaded USB raw image file.

   gunzip d6000v1_OS_7_0_1_0_0_GA_02282020_OS_52_GA_05022019_R8_2_1_0_0_GA_01282020.raw.gz
   

10. Burn the image, copy the USB raw image file to the USB device.
    In the example, the USB device is identified as dev/sdd. This command requires root access and is prefixed with “sudo”.

    sudo cp d6000v1_OS_7_0_1_0_0_GA_02282020_OS_52_GA_05022019_R8_2_1_0_0_GA_01282020.raw /dev/sdd
    

The USB burn process on a USB3 device can take 15 minutes. It may take a longer time if the device or port is USB2. After the process is complete, you can remove the USB. It is ready for use.