User's Manual

Using the Systems Build and Update Utility 41
1 Follow step 1 through step 8 in "Deploying More Than One System With
Slightly Different Configurations" to create a bootable image to deploy an
operating system, for example, Windows Server 2003 operating system.
On the
Systems Build and Update Utility Home screen, click SOI .
On the
Select an Operating System to Install screen, select Windows
Server 2003.
If you also choose to export the configuration, you can import this
configuration later (in another session) by clicking
Import Saved
Configuration
on the Systems Build and Update Utility Home screen.
2 On the Systems Build and Update Utility Home screen, click SOI and
select another operating system, for example,
Red Hat Enterprise
Linux 5.3, export the configuration for this operating system,
and generate an ISO image.
3
Similarly, configure and generate an ISO image for a third operating
system, for example, Windows Server 2008.
You now have three ISO images for the three operating systems you want
to install on multiple systems.
4 Create three different bootable media for the three ISO images,
respectively.
5 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 import and reuse 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 separate ISO images for every variation of the
multiple systems deployment. For the current system, you can directly apply
the configuration you imported, with slight modifications, if required.