PowerEdge: Making Installation bootable USB Media for Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Summary: This article explains how to create a bootable USB drive and set up the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Operating System on a Dell PowerEdge server.

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Instructions

A bootable USB drive can be made with the aid of numerous third-party software’s, which are readily available.
One such software is Fedora Media Writer.

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To create a bootable USB media, by using the third-party application called Rufus shown in the following screenshot.

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As seen below, locate and choose the Red Hat Enterprise Linux ISO Image.

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The bootable USB media is now prepared for use in the installation of an operating system.
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One of the PowerEdge Servers' front USB ports was used to connect this bootable USB drive. During POST, we chose F11 to access the Boot Manager.

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Here Boot Mode is selected as BIOS Mode.
Select Legacy Boot option - Disk connected to front USB to start the operating system installation.

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When the operating system installation selection appeared, we chose to start the installation by choosing Install Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

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For demonstration purposes, we changed the BIOS from BIOS to UEFI Mode and follow the steps for operating system installation using the same bootable USB media.


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Next, we disconnected the Bootable USB device from the Front USB port and inserted it into the PowerEdge Server's Back USB port. We then rebooted the server to begin operating system installation from the Back USB device.

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Affected Products

HS Series, Rack Servers, Tower Servers, XE Servers, PowerEdge XR2, PowerEdge C4130, Poweredge C4140, PowerEdge c6320, PowerEdge c6320p, PowerEdge C6420, PowerEdge C6520, PowerEdge C6525, PowerEdge C6615, PowerEdge C6620, Poweredge FC430 , Poweredge FC630, PowerEdge FC640, Poweredge FC830, PowerEdge FM120x4 (for PE FX2/FX2s), PowerEdge M630, PowerEdge M630 (for PE VRTX), PowerEdge M640, PowerEdge M640 (for PE VRTX), PowerEdge M830, PowerEdge M830 (for PE VRTX), PowerEdge MX740C, PowerEdge MX750c, PowerEdge MX760c, PowerEdge MX840C, PowerEdge XR11, PowerEdge XR12, PowerEdge XR5610, PowerEdge XR7620, Red Hat Enterprise Linux Version 7, Red Hat Enterprise Linux Version 9, Red Hat Enterprise Linux Version 8 ...

Products

Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows Server 2016, Microsoft Windows Server 2019, Microsoft Windows Server 2022, Microsoft Windows 2012 Server, Microsoft Windows 2012 Server R2, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 , Ubuntu Server LTS ...
Article Properties
Article Number: 000215276
Article Type: How To
Last Modified: 18 Dec 2024
Version:  4
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