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Jessica_42876
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Jan 12, 2015

How to create a USB thumb drive in a F5 8900 if the image is in the USB.

hi   They could help me? I followed the steps in the link where it is mentioned as creating a bootalbe usb does not work, chances are I'm doing something wrong. what I am doing is this.   The f...
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Jan 12, 2015

it is a little difficult to understand what you exactly did. but you don't need to put the image on the USB drive for one thing.

 

you have the image on the 8900 itself or on a linux system then mount it as loopback device.

 

then you go to the place you mounted it and run the mkdisk command.

 

now it becomes unclear what happened, if you got an error please let us know what error.

 

personally i experienced some issues when i tried to the do this on a system for a totally different version then the big-ip was running, so you might try to do this from a system that is running 10.1.0 itself.