User's Manual

Using The Systems Build and Update Utility 39

Let us say you choose to first create a bootable media to deploy Windows

Server 2003 operating system. Follow step 1 through step 11 to create the

bootable image for Windows Server 2003 operating system. (Ensure that

you select Windows Server 2003 on the

Select an Operating System to

Install

screen in the

SOI

module.)

If you also choose to export the configuration, you can use this

configuration later (in another session) by importing it by clicking

Import

Saved Configuration

on the

Systems Build and Update Utility Home

screen.

Again, on the

Systems Build and Update Utility Home

screen, click

SOI

On the

Select an Operating System to Install

screen, select

Red Hat

Enterprise Linux 5.2.

Once you finish configuring the

SOI

module, you can follow the same

procedure as earlier to export the configuration for R

ed Hat Enterprise

Linux 5.2 operating system and generate another ISO image.

Again, follow the above steps 2 through 4 to configure and generate an ISO

image for Windows Server 2008 operating system.

You now have three ISO images for the three operating systems you want

to install on multiple systems. Create three different bootable media for

the three ISO images respectively. Boot the corresponding number of

systems with the corresponding bootable media to install the required

operating systems.

Reusing Configuration Files

In this scenario, you can reuse (by importing) a configuration file that you

created and exported in an earlier session. You can use this configuration file

and create multiple ISO images with slightly different configuration. This

configuration can be for the current system or for multiple systems. However,

you need to create a separate ISO image for every variation of the multiple

systems deployment. For the current system, you can directly apply the

configuration you imported (and if required, modified slightly).