Deploying Debian 5 GNU/Linux with Insight Control for Linux 6.2

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Deploying Debian 5 GNU/Linux with Insight Control for

Linux 6.2

HP Insight Control for Linux Version 6.2 (and higher)

Contents

Introduction ................................................................................................................................... 2

The Debian GNU/LINUX distribution ................................................................................................. 2

Debian mirrors ............................................................................................................................ 2

Debian distribution ...................................................................................................................... 3

Debian installation media ............................................................................................................. 3

Prerequisites .................................................................................................................................. 4

Reading the Installing a Custom Operating System with HP Insight Control for Linux white paper .............. 4

Modifying installation packages .................................................................................................... 5

Enabling a root login ................................................................................................................... 5

Providing PSP-like support ............................................................................................................. 5

Setting up and deploying Debian ..................................................................................................... 6

Step 1: Add a Debian 5.0 source to your repository ......................................................................... 6

Step 2: Copy or move the Debian ISO images into the directory ......................................................... 7

Step 3: Add an installation configuration file to the repository ............................................................. 7

Step 4: Copy the Debian installation configuration file into the directory ............................................... 7

Step 5: Create directories and copy ISO images .............................................................................. 8

Step 6: Download the Debian installer ............................................................................................ 9

Step 7: Download any .udeb packages needed for hardware support.................................................. 9

Step 8: Create an init script to perform pre-installation tasks ............................................................. 10

Step 9: Create auxiliary RAM disk for the kernel ............................................................................. 11

Step 10: Create an encrypt_passwd script ..................................................................................... 11

Step 11: Create an auto_config script ........................................................................................... 11

Step 12: Create a boot_stanza script ............................................................................................ 12

Step 13: Create an agentless installation association configuration script ............................................ 13

Step 14: Install Debian5-i386 on a target system ............................................................................ 13

For more information ..................................................................................................................... 14

Summary of content (14 pages)

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Deploying Debian 5 GNU/Linux with Insight Control for Linux 6.2 HP Insight Control for Linux Version 6.2 (and higher) Contents Introduction ................................................................................................................................... 2 The Debian GNU/LINUX distribution ................................................................................................. 2 Debian mirrors.........................................................................................
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Introduction On Insight Control for Linux, a Debian 5 installation is performed using the Custom OS installation feature. Insight Control for Linux only provides the tools that enable a custom OS to be installed; it provides no support for Debian 5 itself. Should you experience any Debian-related problems, you need to seek support from the Debian Open Source Community. You can access the HP Debian community from the following web address: http://h18004.www1.hp.com/products/servers/software/debian/index.
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are kept in directories named for their purpose. For example, the index files for Debian 4.0 are kept in the Debian4.0 directory, and the index files for Debian 5.0 are kept in the Debian5.0 directory. A mirroring program, which copies files for Debian 5.0, downloads the index files for Debian 5.0 and uses those files to fetch and create its local copies.
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distribution’s set of packages. Thus, most early attempts at creating a mirror copy far more packages than strictly necessary for the Debian distribution you want to use. ISO media is by far the simpler and more efficient way to get what you want in the smallest amount of time possible. Note that a complete set of ISO media entails the entire set of packages defined to be part of a version and release; it can be quite large. At present, Debian 5.0r3 contains over 18,000 packages.
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Another white paper that might be useful is Setting up Managed Systems in ICE-Linux without the ProLiant Service Pack, which is also available from the Insight Control for Linux Manuals website: Modifying installation packages HP provides a sample installation configuration file (a preseed file) that you can tailor for your environment --- you can use it as a starting point, then customize and modify it to specify the packages you need to install.
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collect the necessary information. SIM uses SNMP to create and maintain an association with the managed system’s management processor (MP). SIM must have previously discovered the MP through either a Manual Add or a normal discovery scan of the MP’s IP address range. There is no ProLiant Support Pack distributed for the Debian operating system at this time; thus, enhanced performance and hardware management agent functionality are not available.
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9. Enter the following information for each text field: Item type: Custom OS Name Debian5-i386 Description Debian 5.0.3 (Lenny) Vendor GNU Version 5.0 Release 3 Architecture i386 Item location Local Kernel name linux RAM disk name initrd.gz,iram1.gz 10. Select Save. 11. Select Ok. Step 2: Copy or move the Debian ISO images into the directory Copy or move the DVD ISO images for Debian 5.0 into the /opt/repository/custom/Debian5-i386 directory.
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configuration files, see the Installing a Custom Operating System with HP Insight Control for Linux white paper. Follow this procedure to copy the installation configuration file: 1. Change to the directory that will contain your installation configuration file. # cd /opt/repository/instconfig/debian5/ 2. Copy the example debian5.cfg file to the current directory. # cp ../custom/examples/Debian5/debian5.cfg . 3. Edit your copy of debian5.
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Step 6: Download the Debian installer The netboot version of the Debian installer is not on the ISO media. Download it and copy it to the /opt/repository/boot/Debian5-i386Boot directory. A plain text mode version of the installer is available from the following web address: http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/lenny/main/installeri386/current/images/netboot/debian-installer/i386/initrd.gz (RAM disk) http://ftp.us.debian.
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For example, if your server has SATA disks, download the following packages: ata-modules-2.6.26-2-486-di_1.76lenny5_i386.udeb sata-modules-2.6.26-2-486-di_1.76lenny5_i386.udeb Step 8 describes where to copy the .udeb packages that you downloaded. Step 8: Create an init script to perform pre-installation tasks In this step, you create an init script to perform the following tasks: a) To accept the MAC address (instead of the device name) for the boot NIC in the kernel boot parameters.
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9. Extract the Broadcomm firmware files from the tar file. The example below assumes that you downloaded the tar file to the /root directory. This example only extracts the Broadcom firmware (for example, bnx2 and bnx2x). # tar -C /opt/repository/boot/Debian5-i386Boot/iram/lib/firmware \ --strip-components 2 -xvzf /root/firmware-nonfree_0.4.tar.gz \ --wildcards "*/bnx*fw" 10. Copy any .udeb packages that you downloaded in Step 7: Download any .
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HP provides an example Debian auto_config script that you can use as a model for creating your own. For more information on how to use this script, see the Installing a Custom Operating System with HP Insight Control for Linux white paper. Follow this procedure to create an auto_config script by copying and modifying the example script: 1. Change to the Debian5-i386 directory: # cd /opt/repository/instconfig/custom/Debian5-i386 2. Copy the example auto_config script to the current directory. # cp ..
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2. Copy the example boot_stanza script to the current directory. # cp ../examples/Debian5/boot_stanza . 3. Edit your copy of boot_stanza using the text editor of your choice and make any necessary modifications. 4. Extend executable permission to the boot_stanza file. # chmod +x boot_stanza 5. Save the file and exit the text editor. Step 13: Create an agentless installation association configuration script Debian GNU/Linux is not supported by the ProLiant Service Pack (PSP).
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