Users Guide

4 Edit the conguration le (isolinux.cfg for BIOS or edefault for UEFI mode) by providing the following options:

• IP address of the network share

• Share path of the network share

• Name of your startup script

The isolinux.cfg/edefault le is ready for PXE-booting.

5 Copy isolinux.cfg le into the PXE conguration folder.

6 Create your own start-up script and place it in the network share specied in your modied isolinux.cfg/edefault le.

The modied script is picked up and executed during the boot process.

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

systems.

NOTE: Ensure that you specify the correct RAMDISK size in the PXE cong le before booting through PXE. A sample

pxe cong le is provided in /mnt/cdrom/isolinux/isolinux.cfg.

Network le system or SMBFS le system based deployment

The procedure enables you to boot DTK and launch the start-up script automatically from a network share (NFS or SMBFS).

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

2 Extract the contents of the ISO image to a folder (for example, isoimage) on your hard drive.

3 Copy the custom script to a share (nfs/smbfs).

4 In UEFI mode, modify the corresponding shared section (nfs/smbfs) in EFI/BOOT/dtk_grub.cfg and create iso using mkisofs. For

BIOS mode, modify the corresponding shared section (

nfs/smbfs) in isolinux/isolinux.cfg and create iso using mkisofs as follows:

mkisofs -o output.iso -b isolinux/isolinux.bin -c isolinux/boot.cat -no-emul-boot -boot-load-

size 4 -boot-info-table -pad -r -J -hide-joliet- trans-tbl -eltorito-alt-boot -e efiboot.img

-no-emul-boot isoimage

NOTE

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

isolinux.cfg (and all les 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.

Your ISO image is ready for booting.

Media-based deployment

The dierent media-based deployments are as follows:

• Deployment Using Custom Scripts

• Deployment Using RPMs

• Deployment Using USB

Deployment using custom scripts

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

2 Extract the contents of the ISO image to a folder (for example, isoimage) on your hard drive.

3 Copy the custom scripts into the same folder.

Running the deployment scripts