Creating The Rm Usb Key; Running The Restore Manager - Dell DR4000 Administrator's Manual

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5 Locate, select, and download the Restore Manager file (in the RM
filename format "DR4000-UM-x.x.x.xxxxx.tag.gz").

Creating the RM USB key

The RM image (.img) file downloaded from the Dell support site must be
transferred to a USB key. The USB key must be 4 GB (Gigabytes) or larger.
Windows USB Image Tools can be used to transfer the RM image provided
that they support the .img file format and can perform a direct block-to-block
device copy to ensure the USB key is bootable.
The following steps can be performed on a Linux/Unix system to transfer the
RM image to the USB key:
1 Copy the downloaded RM image file to a Linux/Unix system.
2 Insert the USB key into an available USB port on the Linux/Unix system.
Make note of the device name that is reported by the operating system (for
example, /dev/sdc4).
3 Do not locally mount the USB device to a file system at this time.
4 Copy the RM image to the USB key using the dd command:
dd if=<path to .img file> of=<usb device> bs=4096k
For example:
dd if=/root/DR4000-UM-04.49.01.00.00.34555.img
of=/dev/sdc4
bs=4096

Running the Restore Manager

To run Restore Manager, boot the DR4000 system using the RM USB key
created in the previous procedure.
1 Insert the RM USB key into an available USB port on the system.
You may also use the virtual media option of iDRAC to remotely load the
RM USB key. For more information, see
Media Integrated Dell Remote Access Controller 6 (iDRAC6) User
in the
Guide
at support.dell.com/manuals.
2 Boot the DR4000 system using the RM USB key.
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