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52 Choosing an Embedded Linux-Based Deployment Method
Alternatively, you can integrate the DTK components into an existing third-party deployment solution
framework. See "Using a Third-Party Deployment Solution Framework."
CD-Based Deployment With Network Access
The general steps include:
1
Copy the DTK ISO image into a share.
2 Modify the appropriate section in the isolinux / isolinux.cfg file.
3 Reburn the contents into a CD (this will be the master CD).
4 Boot the target server from the master CD.
The DTK start-up phase mounts the network share specified in the
isolinux.cfg file.
The DTK start-up phase runs the script (name specified in the
isolinux.cfg file) from the network.
Creating a Bootable CD With Network Stack
You will need a bootable CD to use in a remote deployment. This bootable CD must have the embedded
Linux network stack with specific network drivers to facilitate networking. After you have a network share
created and populated with all the necessary DTK components and supporting files, you can access all
required files by mounting a network share from the target system. You can perform all of these tasks
automatically. This deployment method is recommended if a network connection is available to the
target system—the space on a network share can be very large, and a single set of utilities and scripts can
be accessed by many systems, making the deployment process easy to manage.
After a network drive is mapped from a target system to a network share, all of the utilities and scripts are
available to use. The master deployment script on the network share can be called from the bootable CD
to perform a task or multiple tasks on the target server. For example, pre-operating system configuration
tasks can be deployed from the network and operating system files can be installed.
Creating a Customized Bootable CD with Network Stack
See "Running Deployment Scripts Using DTK and Embedded Linux" for details on how to create a
customized version of a single embedded Linux bootable CD that works across all Dell PowerEdge™
systems and provides an underlying network stack.
Using a Third-Party Deployment Solution Framework
You can use the DTK with any existing third-party deployment solution framework that provides a
PXE booting infrastructure that can be used as the transport mechanism for the DTK utilities. Because
each third-party deployment framework is unique, however, these solutions fall outside the scope of this
document. If you plan to utilize a third-party deployment solution framework, keep in mind that the
DTK is an embedded Linux-based set of tools and scripts, so the deployment solution framework must
also support embedded Linux as a pre-operating system environment.