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c If the drive is mounted, unmount the drive: umount where is the device name of the USB flash drive. 6 Determine the device name of your USB flash drive: a If the USB flash drive was automatically mounted (and subsequently unmounted), use the device name assigned by Linux in the steps below. b If the USB flash drive was not previously mounted, generate a dmesg log to show the newly connected devices. Enter: dmesg Examine the log messages to determine the device name for the USB flash drive. 7 Write the image from the CD-ROM to the USB flash drive: dd bs=1M if= of= where is the name of the SLETC image on the CD-ROM (for example: /media/Novell_SLETC_for_Dell/Novell-SLETC-10-SP21-for-Dell.raw), and is the device name of the USB flash drive. 8 When the write operation is complete, remove the USB flash drive from the Linux system and use it to re-image the FX160 computer (see "Re-Imaging SLETC on an FX160 Computer With a USB Flash Drive" on page 10). Create a Linux Bootable USB Flash Drive With Windows The update CD provided includes these three files: • Documentation (*.pdf) • SLETC update file (*.raw). The name of this file reflects the revision level of SLETC. • Windows USB flash drive image installer (USBDiskImageTool.exe) Dell OptiPlex FX160 Re-Imaging Guide 9

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Dell OptiPlex FX160 Re-Imaging Guide
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c
If the drive is mounted, unmount the drive:
umount </dev/DEVICENAME>
where
</dev/DEVICENAME>
is the device name of the USB flash
drive.
6
Determine the device name of your USB flash drive:
a
If the USB flash drive was automatically mounted (and subsequently
unmounted), use the device name assigned by Linux in the steps
below.
b
If the USB flash drive was
not
previously mounted, generate a
dmesg
log to show the newly connected devices.
Enter:
dmesg
Examine the log messages to determine the device name for the
USB flash
drive
.
7
Write the image from the CD-ROM to the USB flash drive:
dd bs=1M if=<SLETC update> of=</dev/DEVICENAME>
where
<SLETC update>
is the name of the SLETC image on the
CD-ROM (for example:
/media/Novell_SLETC_for_Dell/Novell-SLETC-10-SP2-
1-for-Dell.raw
), and
</dev/DEVICENAME>
is the device name
of the
USB flash drive
.
8
When the write operation is complete, remove the USB flash drive from
the Linux system and use it to re-image the FX160 computer (see
"Re-Imaging SLETC on an FX160 Computer With a USB Flash Drive" on
page 10).
Create a Linux Bootable USB Flash Drive With Windows
The update CD provided includes these three files:
•
Documentation (
*.pdf
)
•
SLETC update file (
*.raw
). The name of this file reflects the revision
level of SLETC.
•
Windows USB flash drive image installer (
USBDiskImageTool.exe
)