User's Manual

NOTE: The network share on which you have the scripts and DTK files are mounted to /opt/dell/toolkit/

systems.

NOTE: Ensure that you specify the correct RAMDISK size in the PXE config file before booting through PXE.

A sample pxe config file is provided in /mnt/cdrom/isolinux/isolinux.cfg.

Media-Based Deployment

The two ways of media deployment are as follows:

• Using Custom Scripts

• Using RPMs

Using Custom Scripts

1. Obtain the ISO image of the embedded Linux at support.dell.com.

2. Extract the contents of the ISO image to a folder on your hard drive.

3. Copy the custom scripts into the same folder.

NOTE: Your scripts must also take care of copying miscellaneous items to unlock the media, so that the media

can be mounted and ejected as required by the operating system’s installation process.

4. In /mnt/cdrom/isolinux.cfg, edit the cd

install

section to point to your customized start-up script. In other words, add

the share_script option; for example:

label 1

kernel SA.1

append initrd=SA.2 root=/dev/ram0 rw DEBUG=0 share_type=cdrom loglevel=1

BUILD=430 init=/init selinux=0

Then, use mkisofsto create the ISO image; for example:

mkisofs -o output.iso -b isolinux/isolinux.bin -c isolinux/boot.catalog -no-

emul-boot -boot-loadsize 4 -pad -r -J -hide-joliet-trans-tbl -bootinfo-

table \isoimage

NOTE: It is important to use mkisofs to make your customized image because the ISO Linux recognizes only

the isolinux.cfg (and all files within /isolinux). If you do not use mkisofs, the HAPI libraries of the DTK cannot

load and most of the Dell Update Packages do not work.

NOTE: The scripts that you copy into the media are copied to the RAM disk and run from the RAM disk. This

task is done to make sure that the media is not locked. Ensure that your sample scripts have valid path names.

5. Burn the ISO contents to a media.

6. Your ISO image is ready for booting.

Using RPMs

You can install DTK using Red Hat Package Manger (RPM), Yellowdog Updater, Modified (YUM) or any other RPM

Installation Manager.

Installing Using RPM

To install DTK RPMs using RPM:

1. Mount the DTK media at /mnt/cdrom.

2. Navigate to the /mnt/cdrom/RPMs directory.

NOTE: The /mnt/cdrom/RPMs directory contains all DTK RPMs and the dependency RPMs.

3. Install the required DTK RPMs.