Users 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 rst 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 in BIOS mode.
For details on the command line arguments to be used for UPINIT.BAT or upinit.sh, see the Dell EMC Deployment Toolkit Command Line
Interface Reference Guide dell.com/openmanagemanuals.
Preparing the operating system installation scripts
The 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 specied before the operating system can be
installed. For more information on installing Red Hat Enterprise Linux and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, see the Dell EMC 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.
W2K12INST.BAT and W2K16INST.BAT
The W2K12INST.BATand W2K16INST.BATsample scripts are used to perform an unattended installation of the Windows Server 2012 R2
and Windows Server 2016 operating systems respectively. The variables and paths must be specied 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 W2K12INST.BATand W2K16INST.BATare 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 les.
External dependencies
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.
Preparing the script
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