HP Scripting Toolkit 9.50 for Linux User Guide

Booting from a USB drive key
Some applications require the use of a writable medium. While booting from CD is not suitable
for this purpose, a USB drive key provides the ideal medium as a writable medium.
NOTE: Booting from a USB drive key is supported only on certain HP ProLiant servers. For more
information, see the HP SPP website at http://www.hp.com/go/spp.
To set up a USB drive key to boot the Scripting Toolkit environment:
1. Download [e-mail]_pubsw-linux_en from http://
www.hp.com.
Extract the file to a directory of your choice. (The following example uses /Toolkit).
2. Make a directory, extract the files, and then change the directory to the extracted toolkit
directory.
mkdir -p /Toolkit
tar xfz ss-scripting-toolkit-linux-9.xx.tar.gz -C /Toolkit
cd /Toolkit/ss-scripting-toolkit-linux-9.xx
3. Enter the following command on the BASH command-line prompt:
./mkusbkey.sh /dev/XXX
where XXX is the device node of your USB drive key.
If you do not know the device node associated with your USB drive key, run the fdisk –l
command to view the devices available to the operating system.
If the script creates the key successfully, the following message appears:
USB Key created successfully on device /dev/XXX
Performing an unattended operating system installation
Sample scripts are provided with the Scripting Toolkit to simplify the installation process. These
scripts are used for the following:
• System hardware configuration
• Operating system preinstallation configuration
However, these scripts must be modified for your particular environment.
System hardware configuration
The sample install_rhel4.sh script performs many hardware configuration tasks, including:
• Copying all Scripting Toolkit utilities from the network share to the target server
• Running hardware discovery to determine server type
• Obtaining server ID information from the hardware discovery file
• Copying server-specific configuration script and data files from the network share
• Loading drivers for storage controllers and any other devices that must be configured
• Running the CONREP utility
• Running the HPSSASCRIPTING utility, if needed (this action is server-specific)
• Running any other configuration utilities
• Running hardware discovery to determine the boot controller
• Obtaining the device node of the boot controller (this information is required for the disk-carving
portion of the operating system setup)
• Running the operating system-specific setup script
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