Skip to main content
  • Place orders quickly and easily
  • View orders and track your shipping status
  • Create and access a list of your products
  • Manage your Dell EMC sites, products, and product-level contacts using Company Administration.

Dell OpenManage Deployment Toolkit Version 4.3 User's Guide

PDF

Network File System or SMBFS File System Based Deployment

The procedure enables you to boot DTK and launch the start-up script automatically from a network share (NFS or SMBFS).
  1. Obtain the ISO image of the embedded Linux available at support.dell.com.
  2. Extract the contents of the ISO image to a folder (for example, isoimage) on your hard drive.
  3. Copy the custom script to a share ( nfs/smbfs).
  4. In UEFI mode, modify the corresponding shared section ( nfs/smbfs) in EFI/BOOT/dtk_grub.cfg and create iso using mkisofs. For BIOS mode, modify the corresponding shared section ( nfs/smbfs) in isolinux/isolinux.cfg and create iso using mkisofs as follows: mkisofs -o output.iso -b isolinux/isolinux.bin -c isolinux/boot.cat -no-emul-boot -boot-load-size 4 -boot-info-table -pad -r -J -hide-joliet- trans-tbl -eltorito-alt-boot -e efiboot.img -no-emul-boot isoimage
    • NOTE: It is important to use mkisofs to make your customized image because the ISO Linux recognizes only the isolinux.cfg (and all files within /isolinux). If you do not use mkisofs, the HAPI libraries of the DTK cannot load and most of the Dell Update Packages do not work.
    • NOTE: The scripts that you copy into the media are copied to the RAM disk and run from the RAM disk. This task is done to make sure that the media is not locked. Ensure that your sample scripts have valid path names.
  5. Burn the ISO contents to a media. Your ISO image is ready for booting.

Rate this content

Accurate
Useful
Easy to understand
Was this article helpful?
0/3000 characters
  Please provide ratings (1-5 stars).
  Please provide ratings (1-5 stars).
  Please provide ratings (1-5 stars).
  Please select whether the article was helpful or not.
  Comments cannot contain these special characters: <>()\