[pve-devel] [RFC PATCH docs-common 02/13] installation-media: adapt for common usage

Christoph Heiss c.heiss at proxmox.com
Fri Apr 19 11:05:08 CEST 2024


Small adaptions were necessary; mostly a trivial s/{pve}/{product}/g and
replacing the ISO URL with the {iso-url} variable.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Heiss <c.heiss at proxmox.com>
---
 installation-media.adoc | 21 ++++++++++++---------
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/installation-media.adoc b/installation-media.adoc
index a1c9402..bcef51c 100644
--- a/installation-media.adoc
+++ b/installation-media.adoc
@@ -1,27 +1,30 @@
 [[installation_prepare_media]]
 Prepare Installation Media
 --------------------------
+ifdef::pve[]
 ifdef::wiki[]
 :pve-toplevel:
 endif::wiki[]
+endif::pve[]

-Download the installer ISO image from: {website}en/downloads/proxmox-virtual-environment/iso
+Download the installer ISO image from: {iso-url}

-The {pve} installation media is a hybrid ISO image. It works in two ways:
+The {product} installation media is a hybrid ISO image. It works in two ways:

 * An ISO image file ready to burn to a CD or DVD.

 * A raw sector (IMG) image file ready to copy to a USB flash drive (USB stick).

-Using a USB flash drive to install {pve} is the recommended way because it is
-the faster option.
+Using a USB flash drive to install {product} is the recommended way because it
+is the faster option.

 Prepare a USB Flash Drive as Installation Medium
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

 The flash drive needs to have at least 1 GB of storage available.

-NOTE: Do not use UNetbootin. It does not work with the {pve} installation image.
+NOTE: Do not use UNetbootin. It does not work with the {product} installation
+image.

 IMPORTANT: Make sure that the USB flash drive is not mounted and does not
 contain any important data.
@@ -35,7 +38,7 @@ USB flash drive. First find the correct device name of the USB flash drive (see
 below). Then run the `dd` command.

 ----
-# dd bs=1M conv=fdatasync if=./proxmox-ve_*.iso of=/dev/XYZ
+# dd bs=1M conv=fdatasync if=./proxmox-*.iso of=/dev/XYZ
 ----

 NOTE: Be sure to replace /dev/XYZ with the correct device name and adapt the
@@ -74,7 +77,7 @@ Convert the `.iso` file to `.dmg` format using the convert option of `hdiutil`,
 for example:

 ----
-# hdiutil convert proxmox-ve_*.iso -format UDRW -o proxmox-ve_*.dmg
+# hdiutil convert proxmox-*.iso -format UDRW -o proxmox-ve_*.dmg
 ----

 TIP: macOS tends to automatically add '.dmg' to the output file name.
@@ -96,7 +99,7 @@ device node has been assigned to it. (e.g., /dev/diskX).
 NOTE: replace X with the disk number from the last command.

 ----
-# sudo dd if=proxmox-ve_*.dmg bs=1M of=/dev/rdiskX
+# sudo dd if=proxmox-*.dmg bs=1M of=/dev/rdiskX
 ----

 NOTE: 'rdiskX', instead of 'diskX', in the last command is intended. It will
@@ -116,7 +119,7 @@ Using Rufus

 Rufus is a more lightweight alternative, but you need to use the *DD mode* to
 make it work. Download Rufus from https://rufus.ie/. Either install it or use
-the portable version. Select the destination drive and the {pve} ISO file.
+the portable version. Select the destination drive and the {product} ISO file.

 IMPORTANT: Once you 'Start' you have to click 'No' on the dialog asking to
 download a different version of GRUB. In the next dialog select the 'DD' mode.
--
2.44.0





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