Administrator Guide

NOTE: The following output examples are for reference only; your output may be different.
NOTE: The management port IP, FTP server IP address, MAC address, and user-id shown are for illustration purpose only.
You must use your system’s applicable values.
ONIE Service Discovery and OS Installation
ONIE attempts to locate the installer through several discovery methods, as shown. To download and run an installer, the ONIE
Service Discovery feature uses the first successful method found.
1 Passed from the boot loader.
2 Search locally attached storage devices for one of the ONIE default installer filenames (for example, USB).
3 Exact the URLs from DHCPv4.
4 Inexact the URLs based on the DHCPv4 responses.
5 Query to the IPv6 link-local neighbors using HTTP for an installer.
6 TFTP waterfall — from the DHCPv4 option 66
Examples of the ONIE ifconfig eth0 Commands
If none of the ONIE Service Discovery methods are successful, you can disable this using the onie-discovery-stop
command.
You can install an operating system manually from HTTP, FTP, or TFTP using the onie-nos-install <URL> command.
NOTE: If you have a recovery USB plugged into your system, you must remove it prior to installing the DIAG-OS using the
onie-nos-install <URL> command.
The ONIE Install environment uses DHCP to assign an IP address to the management interface (eth0). If that fails, it uses the
default IP address 192.168.3.10/255.255.255.0.
To display the IP address, use the ifconfig eth0 command, as shown in the following example.
ONIE:/ # ifconfig eth0
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 90:B1:1C:F4:9C:76
inet addr:n.n.n. Bcast:n.n.n.n Mask:n.n.n.n
inet6 addr: fe80::92b1:1cff:fef4:9c76/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:18 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:24 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:1152 (1.1 KiB) TX bytes:6864 (6.7 KiB)
Interrupt:21 Memory:ff300000-ff320000
To assign an IP address to the management interface (eth0) and verify network connectivity, use the ifconfig eth0 <ip
address> command, as shown in the following example.
ONIE:/ # ifconfig eth0 n.n.n.n/n UP
Verify the network connection with ping.
ONIE:/ # ping n.n.n.n
PING n.n.n.n (n.n.n.n): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from n.n.n.n: seq=0 ttl=62 time=1.357 ms
64 bytes from n.n.n.n: seq=1 ttl=62 time=0.577 ms
^C
Installing ONIE from the BIOS
There are two options for installing ONIE from the BIOS.
• Media (usb) boot using the ONIE installer USB (using the OCP Procedure)
• Media (usb) boot using the Ubuntu installer USB (using the custom-bootable USB procedure)
Pre-requisites
Installation Instructions for ONIE and the Dell OS 9