Owner's Manual
What’s New
The new features for this release include:
Added support for the following operating systems:
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2 (64-bit)
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.8 (32-bit and 64-bit)
Deprecated the following operating systems:
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.1 (32-bit and 64-bit)
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.7 (32-bit and 64-bit)
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 (32-bit). Using DTK utilities we can deploy the following
Linux operating systems:
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.8 (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:
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dell.tar.gz - Dell Deployment Toolkit which contains the DTK tools and sample scripts.
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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."
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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.
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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.
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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.