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Submitted by omar99· Apr 18, 2026Deploy and Configure

Question

A bootstrap USB flash drive has been prepared using a Windows workstation to load the initial configuration of a Palo Alto Networks firewall that was previously being used in a lab. The USB flash drive was formatted using file system FAT32 and the initial configuration is stored in a file named init-cfg.txt. The firewall is currently running PAN-OS 10.0 and using a lab config. The contents of init-cfg.txt in the USB flash drive are as follows: The USB flash drive has been inserted in the firewalls USB port, and the firewall has been restarted using command: > request restart system Upon restart, the firewall fails to begin the bootstrapping process. The failure is caused because:

Options

  • AThe bootstrap.xml file is a required file, but it is missing
  • BFirewall must be in factory default state or have all private data deleted for bootstrapping
  • CThe hostname is a required parameter, but it is missing in init-cfg.txt
  • DPAN-CS version must be 9.1.x at a minimum, but the firewall is running 10.0.x
  • EThe USB must be formatted using the ext3 file system. FAT32 is not supported

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Topics

#Bootstrapping#Initial Configuration#USB Deployment#Firewall Deployment
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