User's Manual

14 Introduction

• A workstation with the following capabilities:

– A writable CD drive and CD-writing software (optional)

– Network access

• A target system with a CD drive, if performing a local deployment

• A target system with a CD drive and network access, if performing a network deployment

• All DTK utilities, sample scripts, and sample configuration files

• All other utilities and files necessary to perform the deployment, including all required Linux drivers,

operating system drivers, and the Dell utility partition file

• DTK documentation:

–

Deployment Toolkit Version

2.3

CLI Reference Guide

–

Deployment Toolkit Version

2.3

User’s Guide

•The

Service and Diagnostic Utilities

NOTE: If your system does not have a Service and Diagnostic Utilities CD, obtain the latest drivers from the

Dell Support website at support.dell.com.

•The

Installation and Server Management

• Your operating system software and documentation

• An optimally configured source system with network access

Deploying Operating Systems

After the system hardware is versioned and configured, an operating system can be installed using

unattended setup files, samples of which are provided as part of the DTK. While these sample configuration

files are operating system specific, they have been enhanced for Dell systems. See your operating system

documentation for more information about how to modify these unattended installation files.

For Windows PE, the sample configuration files contain examples to deploy the following

operating systems:

• Windows Server 2003 with SP1

• Windows Server 2003 with SP2

• Windows 2000 with SP4

NOTE: For the latest supported operating systems, see the Windows PE documentation.

For embedded Linux, the sample configuration files contain examples to deploy the following

operating systems:

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server version 3 (32- and 64-bit)

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server version 4 (32- and 64-bit)

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server version 5 (32- and 64-bit)

•SUSE

Linux Enterprise Server version 10 (64-bit)