1. Owner's Guide
  2. Security and Maintenance of Recovery Appliance
  3. Maintaining the Recovery Appliance Hardware
  4. Reimaging a Compute Server
  5. Preparing the USB Flash Drive for Imaging

Preparing the USB Flash Drive for Imaging

Use a USB flash drive to copy the image to the new compute server.

To prepare the USB flash drive for use:

  1. Insert a blank USB flash drive into a working compute server in the cluster.
  2. Log in as the root user.
  3. Unzip the computeImage file:
    # unzip computeImageMaker_release_LINUX.X64_release_date.platform.tar.zip

# tar -xvf computeImageMaker_release_LINUX.X64_release_date.platform.tar
  4. Load the image onto the USB flash drive:
    # cd dl360
# ./makeImageMedia.sh -dualboot no

    The makeImageMedia.sh script prompts for information.

  5. Remove the USB flash drive from the compute server.
  6. Remove the unzipped d1360 directory and the computeImageMaker file from the working compute server. The directory and file require about 2 GB of disk space.