Deployment Guide

UPINIT.BAT or upinit.sh

The UPINIT.BAT or upinit.sh is a tool used to create and populate a new Dell utility partition and to upgrade or downgrade an

existing utility partition.

NOTE: You can use this script to create a new Dell utility partition only if there are no existing partitions on your hard

disk.

Upgrades or downgrades can be made only to existing Dell utility partitions to capture BIOS and BMC settings using the overwrite

option.

CAUTION: The existing Dell utility partition must be the first primary partition on the hard disk. Also, the Dell utility

partition must be greater than or equal to 32 MB and less than 2 GB.

For details on the command line arguments to be used for UPINIT.BAT or upinit.sh, see the Dell Deployment Toolkit Command Line

Interface Reference Guide dell.com/openmanagemanuals.

Preparing the operating system installation scripts

The W2K8INST.BAT And W2K12INST.BAT script (on systems running supported Windows operating systems), the linux scripts (on

systems running supported Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server operating system), and suseinst.sh sample script (on systems running

supported SUSE Linux Enterprise Server operating system) are used to perform an installation. The variables and paths must be

specified before the operating system can be installed. For more information on installing Red Hat Enterprise Linux and SUSE Linux

Enterprise Server, see the Dell OpenManage Deployment Toolkit Installation Guide available at dell.com/openmanagemanuals.

NOTE: It is recommended that you consult your Windows or Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server operating system

documentation and unattended deployment documentation to develop a thorough understanding of the unattended

installation process before attempting to perform a full scripted deployment.

NOTE: While installing Linux, ensure that you install grub in the boot partition. Otherwise, you cannot boot to the utility

partition by pressing the <F10> key during reboot.

W2K8INST.BAT, W2K12INST.BAT and W2K16INST.BAT

The W2K8INST.BAT, W2K12INST.BATand W2K16INST.BATsample scripts are used to perform an unattended installation of the

Windows Server 2008 , Windows Server 2012 and Windows Server 2016 operating systems respectively. The variables and paths

must be specified before the operating system can be installed.

NOTE: It is recommended that you consult your Windows operating system documentation and unattended deployment

documentation to develop a thorough understanding of the Windows unattended installation process before attempting

to perform a full scripted deployment.

The syntax for W2K8INST.BAT,W2K12INST.BATand W2K16INST.BATare w2k8inst.bat,w2k12inst.batand w2k16inst.bat respectively.

Utilities used

SETUP.EXE — Used to install the operating system in conjunction with the UNATTEND.XML and UNATTEND_UEFI.XML answer

files.

External dependencies

W2K8INST.BAT,W2K12INST.BATand W2K16INST.BATscripts uses two environment variables: DT_PLATFORM and DT_DRIVE.

The DT_PLATFORM variable is set by TKENVSET.BAT using platform discovery.

The DT_DRIVE denotes the network drive letter to the network shared path containing the Windows Server 2008 or the Windows

Server 2012 operating system source and the UNATTEND.XML (in BIOS mode) or UNATTEND_UEFI.XML file (in UEFI mode).