USB-stick based kickstart for STRATUS Preparing SUB stick: 1. Insert a SUB stick into a Linux server, login as "root" there 2. Find disk device file with "dmesg" Example: [1815618.425147] sd 5:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg7 type 0 [1815618.426493] sd 5:0:0:0: [sde] 7831552 512-byte logical blocks: (4.00 GB/3.73 GiB) Here, "/dev/sde" will be a device file 3. Create partition table on USB stick with "fdisk": one primary partion Example: fdisk /dev/sde n p w 4. Format USB stick wit EXT3 file system Example: mkfs.ext3 /dev/sde1 e2label /dev/sde1 stratususb 5. Fount USB stick to /mnt Example: mount /dev/sde1 /mnt 6. Download stick content, write it to USB stick Example: cd wget ftp://ftp.videonext.net/private/STRATUS-RELEASES/KS-USB/ks-3.9-usb-20160713.tgz cd /mnt tar xvzf /root/ks-3.9-usb-20160713.tgz cd umount /mnt Installation: 1. Boot from original RedHat 7 or CentOS 7 DVD 2. At the first menu, hit 3. Insert USB stick into an empty USB slot 4. Type boot command: linux initrd=initrd.img selinux=0 net.ifnames=0 biosdevname=0 ks=hd:LABEL=stratususb:/stratus-usb.cfg