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DL4300 Appliance
Managing a Linux boot image
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NOTE:
The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) is an international body of representatives
from various national organizations that sets file system standards. The ISO 9660 is a file system standard
that is used for optical disk media for the exchange of data and supports various operating systems. An
ISO image is the archive file or disk image, which contains data for every sector of the disk as well as the
disk file system.
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Downloading a boot ISO image for Linux
You must download the Live DVD ISO image that matches your version of Rapid Recovery. The current
version of Live DVD is available from the Dell Data Protection | Rapid Recovery License Portal at
. If you need a different version, contact Dell Rapid Recovery support
NOTE:
For more information about the Dell Data Protection | Rapid Recovery License Portal, see the Dell
Data Protection | Rapid Recovery License Portal License Portal User Guide.
This task is a step in
Performing a bare metal restore for Linux machines
. It is part of the process for
Complete the steps in this procedure to download the Live DVD ISO image.
1. Log into the Dell Data Protection | Rapid Recovery License Portal at
2. Access the Downloads area.
3. Scroll down to Linux Based Applications and, from the Linux Live DVD section, click Download.
4. Save the Live DVD ISO image. If you are restoring a virtual machine, you can save it to a network location,
and set the VM to start up from a CD or DVD drive associated with the ISO image.
5. If restoring from a physical machine, burn the Boot CD ISO image onto a compact disc (CD) or digital video
disk (DVD) from which the target machine can be started. For more information, see
.
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Saving the Live DVD ISO image to media
When you download the Linux Live DVD file, it is stored as an ISO image in the path you specified. You must be
able to boot the target Linux machine from the Live DVD image.
This task is a step in
Performing a bare metal restore for Linux machines
. It is part of the process for
1. Burn the boot CD ISO image onto a compact disc (CD) or digital video disk (DVD) media.
If performing a BMR on a virtual machine, this step is not required. Simply load the ISO image in a drive
and edit the machine settings for that VM to start from that drive. You can also use virtual export to restore
a Linux VM. For more information, see
.
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Loading the Live DVD and starting the target machine
After you obtain the Live DVD ISO image, you need to start the Linux machine from the newly created Live DVD.
This task is a step in
Performing a bare metal restore for Linux machines
. It is part of the process for
1. Navigate to the new server and load the Live DVD image from the appropriate location. Specify that the
server will start from the Live DVD image.
2. Start the machine.