Gluster 3.1: Preparing the Install Media

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Gluster Storage Platform is available as a compressed USB bootable disk image. After uncompressing the disk image, you can transfer the platform image to a USB stick (without any partitions) using standard dd disk-dump utility.

Note: Most desktops automatically mount USB sticks upon insertion. You need to unmount the USB stick manually before transferring the image.

To prepare a USB stick

  1. Determine the device name of the USB stick by typing the following command in a terminal window:

    root$ dmesg | tail

    Alternatively, you can check the /proc/devices file to determine the device name.

  2. Change to the directory that contains the Gluster Storage Platform disk image.
  3. Use the dd utility to transfer the image to the USB stick.

    Assuming that your USB disk is detected as /dev/sdc, for example, type the following:

    root$ dd if=Gluster-3.1.img of=/dev/sdc bs=1M
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