.. _Preparing for Installation:

Preparing for Installation
--------------------------

|product_name| can be installed from

-  DVD discs (burn the distribution ISO image onto a DVD disc),

-  PXE servers (see the *Installation via PXE Server* guide for information on installing |product_name| over the network).

   .. note:: Time synchronization via NTP is enabled by default.

-  USB drives

.. _Preparing for Installation from USB Storage Drives:

Preparing for Installation from USB Storage Drives
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

To install |product_name| from a USB storage drive, you will need a 2 GB or higher-capacity USB drive and the |product_name| distribution ISO image.

Make a bootable USB drive by transferring the distribution image to it with ``dd``.

.. important:: Be careful to specify the correct drive to transfer the image to.

For example, on Linux:

::

    # dd if=storage-image.iso of=/dev/sdb

And on Windows (with `dd for Windows <http://www.chrysocome.net/dd>`__):

::

    C:\>dd if=storage-image.iso of=\\?\Device\Harddisk1\Partition0