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Running Deployment Scripts Using DTK and Embedded Linux 87

Burn the contents of the folder you created in step 3 to a CD. (Use the

isolinux

utility to make the

CD bootable.)

Your ISO image is ready for booting.

Deployment Using Customized Embedded Linux

Ensure that you have the following basic libraries, Dell toolkit libraries, tools, and utilities required for

DTK to work in your customized Linux deployment environment (see Table 7-1 for details on files and

RPMs to customize your embedded Linux):

• Drivers for all your hardware installed in your embedded Linux (from the Dell Support website at

support.dell.com

)

• Serial port configuration utilities (

setserial

and

stty

) for

racadm

• Installed and working instrumentation drivers (from

/mnt/cdrom/tools

)

• Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) tools

• Open Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI) drivers

• Basic libraries and utilities for Linux to execute customized scripts

• DTK tools and utilities extracted from the embedded Linux CD (

/mnt/cdrom/tools/dell.tar.gz)

• Necessary entries in the

ld.so.config

file

so that the libraries get loaded

Integrate all the above mentioned libraries, Dell toolkit libraries, tools, and utilities into your embedded

Linux environment and proceed with deployment.

NOTE: Ensure that the raidcfg executable in the /bin directory is a symbolic link to the raidcfg in the Dell-provided

/lib folder.

NOTE: Refer to start-stage3.sh, start-hapi.sh, or start-raid.sh on /mnt/cdrom/tools to see how Dell-provided

utilities and drivers are loaded.

NOTE: The /opt/dell/srvadmin/shared and /opt/dell/srvadmin/hapi directories should have Read-Write

permissions. Refer to start-stage3.sh and start-hapi.sh for details.

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.