.. _Preparing for Installation:

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

|product_name| can be installed from

-  IPMI virtual drives
-  PXE servers (in this case, 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 4 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