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