Re: [Xen-API] [Xen-users] Installing XCP from USB thumb

[cyberhawk001@xxxxxxxxx]

On 6/25/2012 9:44 PM, ray@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> I am sorry for being so dense, but I can't tell what is happening.
>
> This is building a thumbdrive installation by using a Linux system to
> construct the contents for the thumb drive?
>
> The ISO is openned with 7-zip and three files are copied o the root of
> the thumb drive.  What was it that YUMI put on the thumbdrive?
>
> Can something similar be done from a Windows 7 system?

As for putting Windows 7 on a USB stick is very easy and simple. I have 
already done that a while ago and have used it several times. For that, 
all you have to do is download a program called WinToFlash, which you 
can just download the latest from here http://wintoflash.com/home/en/ 
and extract the program. Granted, that program only works on Windows BUT 
it is also in a portable state, meaning it doesn't need to be installed 
on a windows, just extracted and run.


> ray
>
>   Message: 16
> Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2012 15:24:08 -0500
> From: Shawn Henderson<shenderson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: Ian Campbell<Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>, Mike McClurg
> <mike.mcclurg@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: "xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxx"<xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Eric
> <epretorious@xxxxxxxxx>, "xen-api@xxxxxxxxxxxxx"
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> Subject: Re: [Xen-users] [Xen-API] Installing XCP from USB thumb
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> Here's how we did it (from my engineer):
>
> What we did to get XCP install from a USB stick.
> Step #1) Download all the things
> YUMI. (I used 0.0.5.8 but any version should work) -
> http://www.pendrivelinux.com/yumi-multiboot-usb-creator/
> XCP install ISO - http://www.xen.org/download/xcp/index.html
> Step #2) Plug in your USB stick (the rest assumes the drive is assigned
> a letter of D:)
> Step #3a) Run YUMI
> Step #3b) Agree to the license Agreement
> Step #3c) Select D: for YUMI Step 1
> Step #3d) Select the option ?Try an Unlisted ISO? for YUMI Step 2
> Step #3e) Browse to the downloaded XCP ISO from step 1 and select it for
> YUMI Step 3
> Step #3f) Mash create and wait.
>
> At this point it is going to bloat things a little by having the full
> iso on the USB stuck but who cares right?
>
> Step #4) Open the ISO downloaded in Step 1 using your favorite archive
> program. (I use 7-zip) Copy the folders packages.main and
> packages.transfer-vm to the root of d:\ and finally copy the file
> XS-REPOSITORY-LIST to the root of D:\
>
> Step #5) PROFIT?
>
> ________________________________________
> From: xen-api-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [xen-api-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
> Behalf Of Ian Campbell [Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Friday, June 22, 2012 7:04 AM
> To: Mike McClurg
> Cc: xen-api@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; Eric
> Subject: Re: [Xen-API] [Xen-users] Installing XCP from USB thumb drive
>
> On Fri, 2012-06-22 at 12:51 +0100, Mike McClurg wrote:
> > On 22/06/12 12:18, Anil Madhavapeddy wrote:
> > > On 22 Jun 2012, at 12:12, Mike McClurg wrote:
> > >
> > > > On 22/06/12 11:59, Ian Campbell wrote:
> > > > > On Fri, 2012-06-22 at 11:27 +0100, Mike McClurg wrote:
> > > > > > On 21/06/12 00:05, Eric wrote:
> > > > > > > Is CD-ROM/DVD-ROM the only way to install XCP?
> > > > > > I'm sure you could dd the iso to a thumb drive in the same way you would
> > > > > > any other OS.
> > > > > This depends on the iso having being created with special options though
> > > > > -- is that done for XCP isos?
> > > > I have no idea, what options does an ISO need to be created with? Can
> > > > you repackage an ISO with those options?
> > > If it still exists, packaging.hg creates the XenServer ISO with the correct
> > > options for PXE boot. XCP probably uses the same build scripts...are they
> > > open-source?
> > Those scripts don't contain any license information that I can see, and
> > we haven't published them publicly. I'm all for making XCP easier to
> > build outside of Citrix, but I don't think that thrusting our build
> > system on the world is the right way to do it ;)
> >
> > Anyway, here is the blurb that generates the iso:
> >
> > mkisofs -joliet -joliet-long -r \
> > -b boot/isolinux/isolinux.bin -c boot/isolinux/boot.cat \
> > -no-emul-boot -boot-load-size 4 -boot-info-table \
> > -sort $(MY_OBJ_DIR)/sort.main.list \
> > -V "$(PLATFORM_NAME)-$(PLATFORM_VERSION) $(LABEL_main)" \
> > -o $@ $(STAGING_main);
> >
> > Does that look like it'll generate a thumb-drive-bootable ISO?
> The scripts which create the Debian CD sets use
> case "$MKISOFS" in
> *xorriso*)
> add_mkisofs_opt $CDDIR/../$N.mkisofs_opts "-isohybrid-mbr
> syslinux/usr/lib/syslinux/isohdpfx.bin"
> add_mkisofs_opt $CDDIR/../$N.mkisofs_opts "-partition_offset 16"
> which I think is related to this.
>
> I think it is basically doing isohybrid at creation time instead of post
> processing. It seems (and this corresponds with my vague memory of
> seeing the discussion on debian-cd) like it needs xorriso rather than
> mkisofs (which IIRC is deprecated).
>
> Ian.
>
>
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