Creating a bootable USB flash drive with a Windows system

Use the Fedora® Media Writer app on a Windows system to create a bootable USB flash drive that you can use to install IBM® QRadar® software.

Before you begin

You must have access to an 8 GB or larger USB flash drive.

Important: Ensure that you load only the QRadar ISO image file on the bootable USB flash drive.

Procedure

  1. On your Windows system, download and install the Fedora Media Writer app from the Fedora Media Writer GitHub repository (https://github.com/FedoraQt/MediaWriter/releases).

    Other media creation tools might work to create the bootable flash drive, but the QRadar ISO is a modified Red Hat® ISO, and Red Hat suggests Fedora Media Writer. For more information, see Making Installation USB Media (https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/7/html/installation_guide/sect-making-usb-media).

  2. On your Windows system, download the QRadar ISO image file from Fix Central (www.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/) to a local drive.
  3. Insert the USB flash drive into a USB port on your Windows system.
    Important: Any files stored on the USB flash drive are overwritten when creating the bootable flash drive.
  4. Open Fedora Media Writer and in the main window, click Custom Image.
  5. Browse to where you downloaded the QRadar ISO on your Windows system and select it.
  6. Select the USB flash drive from the Fedora Media Writer menu, and then click Write to disk.
  7. When the writing process is complete, click Close and remove the USB flash drive from your system.

What to do next

See Installing QRadar with a USB flash drive.