Owner's Manual

What’s New
The new features for this release include:
• Added support for SUSE Enterprise Linux 11 SP2 (64-bit).
• Deprecated the following operating systems:
o Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.0 (64-bit)
o Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.5 (32-bit and 64-bit)
o SUSE Enterprise Linux 11 SP1 (64-bit)
o Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2 (32-bit and 64-bit)
o Microsoft Windows Server 2003 (32-bit and 64-bit)
• Support for Dell PowerEdge yx2x systems.
• On PowerEdge yx2x systems, all the SYSCFG options are grouped as per the BIOS. SYSCFG configures and reports
the current and pending BIOS attributes.
• If the system has setup password, BIOS configuration using SYSCFG requires the setup password.
• Attributes such as ipv6, power budget, dynamic DNS, and dedicated NIC configurations are available only with the
appropriate installed license.
Supported Systems
For a complete list of supported Dell PowerEdge systems, see the Dell Systems Software Support Matrix available at
support.dell.com/manuals. On the Manuals page, click Software-> Systems Management -> Dell OpenManage Releases. Click
the appropriate product version to access the Support Matrix.
Supported Operating Systems
DTK utilities support Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server version 5.5, update 4 (32-bit). Using DTK utilities we can deploy the
following Linux operating systems:
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.1
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.7 (32-bit and 64-bit)
• SUSE Enterprise Linux 10 SP4
• SUSE Enterprise Linux 11 SP2
Hardware and Software Requirements
Before installing the DTK components for embedded Linux, ensure that you have:
• The DTK ISO image, which contains the utilities, sample scripts, sample configuration files, and documentation you
need to deploy your Dell system.
• A Linux workstation that has at least 200 MB of free hard-drive space.
• When building customized Linux ISOs, you might need to incorporate the following Red Hat Package Managers
(RPMs) and scripts provided by DTK to ensure a successful build:
o dell.tar.gz - Dell Deployment Toolkit which contains the DTK tools and sample scripts.
o omreg.cfg - Configuration file for instrumentation software. Edit this file, if required, to point to where
the DTK tools are placed. The modified file should be under the location "/etc."
o start-hapi.sh - Startup script to load and configure the HAPI drivers. You need to run this script to load
the OpenIPMI Modules and to create files required by HAPI.
o start-raid.sh - Contains basic setup for RAID to work. You need to run this script to create device nodes
required by RAIDCFG and files required by HAPI.
o start-stage3.sh - A sample DTK startup script that loads all the modules and drivers required for the ISO
to work. You will have to replicate this setup in your customized Linux ISO.
• If you have the DTK CD mounted under "/mnt/cdrom," you can extract the DTK tools, scripts, and other essentials
to build your customized ISO image under the "tools" folder at the root of the CD.