Alternative DVD/ISO image

[David Guimaraes]

Hello,

there is another alternative for DVD ISO image? I have an old Dell PowerEdge 2650 machine and it has only CD-ROM and Floppy drives.. so i can't see an option to install security-onion image..

David

[Doug Burks]

Hi David,

Thanks for your interest in Security Onion!

Can the machine boot from USB? If so, you can create a bootable USB
drive from the Security Onion ISO image using a utility like
UNetbootin:
http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/

Please let us know whether or not that helps.

Thanks,
--
Doug Burks, GSE, CISSP
President, Greater Augusta ISSA
http://augusta.issa.org
http://securityonion.blogspot.com

[David Guimaraes]

No.. the machine can't boot with USB.. we already tried it.. (the bios don't have this option).. like I said.. it is an old Dell server machine..

We even tried using the Dell DRAC interface for installation, but the interface does not allow mapping DVD. And the motherboard has no IDE / SATA device, only 2 SCSI drivers. We tried plugging a USB/SATA cable but it was not possible to boot using it .. i don't have any more ideas...

--
David Gomes Guimarães

[Doug Burks]

Try the Plop boot manager. It comes as an iso that you burn to cd. Boot from the cd and then you should get a boot menu that in turn allows booting from USB. Hope that helps. 

Sent from my iPhone

[David Guimaraes]

Hi Doug, 

we did it using Plop with USB ISO image. 

Thank you.

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David Gomes Guimarães

[logan king]

Plop did the job for us!! Thank you so very much for this post. We desperately needed to boot USB on a Dell 2650. This did the trick. Absolutely Wonderful!!!