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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers How to install a new system from a usb key Post 302283633 by chebarbudo on Tuesday 3rd of February 2009 04:50:58 PM

02-03-2009

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Thanks for your reply Corona688.
What I wanted to mean with standard arborescence was actually:
The system.tgz contains the integrality of the filesystem.

Now that you are talking about tftp, here is what I found on the PXE server:

Code:

santiago$ ls -AlR tftpboot/
tftpboot/:
total 187844
drwxrws--x 3 root admins      4096 2009-01-23 17:35 debian-installer
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root admins     13480 2009-01-23 17:36 pxelinux.0
drwxrws--x 2 root admins      4096 2009-01-23 17:36 pxelinux.cfg

tftpboot/debian-installer:
total 4
drwxrws--x 2 root admins 4096 2009-01-23 17:36 i386

tftpboot/debian-installer/i386:
total 10280
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root admins 9280899 2009-01-23 17:36 initrd.gz
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root admins 1219068 2009-01-23 17:36 linux
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root admins      87 2009-01-23 17:36 ndtv.txt

tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg:
total 4
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root admins 821 2009-01-23 17:36 default

Is there any chance I can put that on the usb key?
But where? And how do I make it bootable?

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usb-devices

usb-devices(1)							Linux USB Utilities						    usb-devices(1)

NAME

       usb-devices - print USB device details

SYNOPSIS

       usb-devices

DESCRIPTION

       usb-devices is a (bash) shell script that can be used to display details of USB buses in the system and the devices connected to them.

       The  output  of	the  script  is similar to the usb/devices file available either under /proc/bus (if usbfs is mounted), or under /sys/ker-
       nel/debug (if debugfs is mounted there). The script is primarily intended to be used if the file is not available.

       In contrast to the usb/devices file, this script only lists active interfaces (those marked with a "*" in the usb/devices file)	and  their
       endpoints.

       Be advised that there can be differences in the way information is sorted, as well as in the format of the output.

RETURN VALUE

       If sysfs is not mounted, a non-zero exit code is returned.

FILES

       /sys/bus/usb/devices/usb*
	      The part of the sysfs tree the script walks through to assemble the printed information.

       /proc/bus/usb/devices
	      Location where the usb/devices file can normally be found for Linux kernels before 2.6.31, if usbfs is mounted.

       /sys/kernel/debug/usb/devices
	      Location where the usb/devices file can normally be found for Linux kernel 2.6.31 and later, if debugfs is mounted.

SEE ALSO

       lsusb(8), usbview(8).

AUTHORS

       Greg Kroah-Hartman <greg@kroah.com>

       Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>

       Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>

usbutils-005							   23 June 2009 						    usb-devices(1)