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| author | Daniil Baturin <daniil@vyos.io> | 2020-09-08 04:56:41 +0700 |
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| committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2020-09-08 04:56:41 +0700 |
| commit | 9dc90d6cc8c7dd17130c858591694723c4bf177c (patch) | |
| tree | 39646327188136801daef8327e5c168b3c72a163 /docs/install.rst | |
| parent | 8d4c31dcdfddb68674b9c29f1e7e672486a632bb (diff) | |
| parent | 9971478a6ba830f03493c135019080ae17e0e114 (diff) | |
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Merge pull request #320 from currite/write-usb-sync
installation: add dd parameter for usb creation
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diff --git a/docs/install.rst b/docs/install.rst index 26d7c7c8..3e31449f 100644 --- a/docs/install.rst +++ b/docs/install.rst @@ -217,12 +217,12 @@ stick with with the ``dd`` command: .. code-block:: none - # dd if=/path/to/vyos.iso of=/dev/sdX bs=8M + # dd if=/path/to/vyos.iso of=/dev/sdX bs=8M; sync 5. Wait until you get the outcome (bytes copied). Be patient, in some computers it might take more than one minute. - 6. Once ``dd`` has finished, plug the USB drive out and plug it into + 6. Once ``dd`` has finished, pull the USB drive out and plug it into the powered-off computer where you want to install (or test) VyOS. 7. Power the computer on, making sure it boots from the USB drive (you @@ -239,7 +239,7 @@ macOS and Windows), Rufus_ (for Windows) and `many others`_. You can follow their instructions to create a bootable USB drive from an .iso file. -.. hint:: The default username and password for the live system is ``vyos``. +.. hint:: The default username and password for the live system is *vyos*. .. _permanent_installation: @@ -357,7 +357,7 @@ Configuration ------------- Step 1: DHCP -"""""""""""" +^^^^^^^^^^^^ Configure a DHCP server to provide the client with: @@ -385,7 +385,7 @@ In this example we configured an existent VyOS as the DHCP server: .. _install_from_tftp: Step 2: TFTP -"""""""""""" +^^^^^^^^^^^^ Configure a TFTP server so that it serves the following: @@ -444,7 +444,7 @@ Example of simple (no menu) configuration file: APPEND initrd=initrd.img-4.19.54-amd64-vyos boot=live nopersistence noautologin nonetworking fetch=http://address:8000/filesystem.squashfs Step 3: HTTP -"""""""""""" +^^^^^^^^^^^^ As you can read in the configuration file, we are sending ``filesystem.squashfs`` through HTTP. As that is a heavy file, we choose HTTP to speed up the transfer @@ -455,7 +455,7 @@ First run a web server - you can use a simple one like file. The file can be found inside the ``/live`` directory of the extracted contents of the ISO file. -Second, edit the configuration file at the :ref:`install_from_tftp` so that it shows +Second, edit the configuration file of the :ref:`install_from_tftp` so that it shows the correct URL at ``fetch=http://<address_of_your_HTTP_server>/filesystem.squashfs``. And third, restart the TFTP service. If you are using VyOS as your TFTP Server, you can restart |