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fubarSUSHI
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Jun 16, 2014

How to: download image from usb to a LTM device?

I realize this might be a stupid/simple question but I have a mass deployment and instead of getting into the gui and "importing" I want to use my usb and put the image (from usb) into /shared/images.

 

My question is... how do I get the ltm to see the usb stick?

 

Everything I look up online is "How to boot from a usb stick" versus how do I get the LTM to see the usb stick?

 

My linux skills are very weak and Im apparently missing the "terminology" to accomplish this task.

 

Thx in advance

 

application delivery
LTM
management

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    • fubarSUSHI's avatar
      fubarSUSHI
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      Jun 16, 2014
      Thank you for the links. I guess I need to find what type of formats does the LTM read? I have/had a usb stick that was formated for exfat (so I can use the usb via mac (formatted on the mac) and read it on Windows.) But, when I did a fdisk... it shows something different HPFS/NTFS config fdisk /dev/sdc The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 3911. There is nothing wrong with that, but this is larger than 1024, and could in certain setups cause problems with: 1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., old versions of LILO) 2) booting and partitioning software from other OSs (e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK) Command (m for help): p Disk /dev/sdc: 32.1 GB, 32176472064 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 3911 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdc1 1 3912 31422335 7 HPFS/NTFS This format didnt work but once I formatted to ext3... it works. Do we know anything else that would work for mac/ltm?
    • fubarSUSHI's avatar
      fubarSUSHI
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      Jun 16, 2014
      Thank you for the links. I guess I need to find what type of formats does the LTM read? I have/had a usb stick that was formated for exfat (so I can use the usb via mac (formatted on the mac) and read it on Windows.) But, when I did a fdisk... it shows something different HPFS/NTFS config fdisk /dev/sdc The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 3911. There is nothing wrong with that, but this is larger than 1024, and could in certain setups cause problems with: 1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., old versions of LILO) 2) booting and partitioning software from other OSs (e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK) Command (m for help): p Disk /dev/sdc: 32.1 GB, 32176472064 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 3911 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdc1 1 3912 31422335 7 HPFS/NTFS This format didnt work but once I formatted to ext3... it works. Do we know anything else that would work for mac/ltm?
  • What_Lies_Bene1's avatar
    What_Lies_Bene1
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    Jun 17, 2014

    Its best to assume exFAT isn't supported by Linux. FAT32 is your best bet for compatibility between Linux, Mac (and Windows).