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Install from USB Stick?

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Re: Install from USB Stick?
« Reply #15 on: March 30, 2009, 06:45:06 AM »
I got it work in this way with a 1GB stick

Same first steps:

1. Download SME ISO and also download the UNetbootin utility. http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/
2. Format your USB stick
3. Run the UNetbootin utility and select the disk image option and point it to the SME ISO image. set the type as USB drive and set the appropriate USB drive as your target.
4. Once the USB image creation is complete then also copy the SME ISO image to the USB stick
5. Configure the Bios for USB boot on your target machine for SME install
6. Boot from the USB stick and follow the prompts like for a CD install of SME
7. At some point the loader will ask for the location of a CD image, select hard disk install and point the installer back to your USB stick. select HTTP. I previously setup an Apache on my windows machine (WAMP takes about 15 min of installation) and copy the extracted iso image in a folder named sme on the www root. Point to my windows machine ip address and to the "sme" directory and it installed without any issues. 5 minutes later I logged in from my browser.