User manual HP INSIGHT CONTROL LINUX EDITION FOR BLADESYSTEM

[. . . ] HP Insight Control Linux Edition User Guide Part number: 416041-004 Fourth edition: July 2007 Legal notices © Copyright 2006, 2007 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L. P. Valid license from HP required for possession, use or copying. Consistent with FAR 12. 211 and 12. 212, Commercial Computer Software, Computer Software Documentation, and Technical Data for Commercial Items are licensed to the U. S. Government under vendor's standard commercial license. [. . . ] Repeat steps 5 through 7 for all of the remaining installation discs or . iso images NOTE: Manual intervention may be required to eject your CD from a CD-ROM drive. Uploading installation media from a Windows workstation 1. Insert the first CD or DVD disc in your Windows workstation. Open WinSCP and type in Hostname : <control tower server ip> Username : root Password : <control tower password> 2. Click Save to Login ­ it drops the left hand pane in Control Tower path /root. In the right hand window, click the double dot [ . . In the right hand window click the /var then /rct icons to travel down. Navigate to /var/rct/export/public/installer/linux/media/suse/sles9. 0/i386/SLES9/CDx Right click in right pane, select New > File, name it sym. sh. Click OK and paste in the following commands: mkdir -p SLES9/CD{1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6} mkdir -p CORE9 for a in 2 3 4 5 6 do let b=$a-1 ln -s . . /SLES9/CD$a CORE9/CD$b done ln -s SLES9/CD1/boot . mkdir yast echo -e "/SLES9/CD1 /SLES9/CD1\n/CORE9/CD1 /CORE9/CD1" > yast/order echo -e "/SLES9/CD1 /SLES9/CD1\n/CORE9/CD1 /CORE9/CD1" > yast/instorder Close and click Yes to Save. Open a terminal window by selecting Commands > Open Terminal from the menu and enter: bash sym. sh 9. In the left hand window in the dropdown menu, select the drive with the first disc. Using Control Tower 40 7. 13. Select all contents in the left hand window, click and drag to the right to the folder for this SLES/CDx. Eject the first disc, and insert the next disc. Repeat until done. Mounting ISO images on Windows workstations To mount ISO images on Windows XP workstations, you can use the Microsoft-distributed, but unsupported, tool Virtual CD-ROM Control Panel for Windows XP. This tool can be downloaded from http://download. microsoft. com/download/7/b/6/7b6abd84-7841-4978-96f5-bd58df02efa2/ winxpvirtualcdcontrolpanel_21. exe. After downloading the tool, double-click the file to unzip it and read the readme. txt file for instructions. For example, assuming the ISO images have been copied to the Windows workstation and the Virtual CD-ROM Control Panel for Windows XP has been installed: 1. Start the Virtual CD-ROM Control Panel for Windows XP tool (VCdControlTool). Add a virtual drive by clicking Add drive. Mount an ISO image on the selected virtual drive by clicking Mount. Browse to the ISO image, select the image, and click Open. Accept the default selections, and click OK. [. . . ] For example, for "SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9, service pack 3, i386" CD1media the target path would be: /var/rct/export/public/installer/linux/media/suse/sles9. 3/i386/SVRP3/CD1 Service packs are incremental and require that a non-service pack network install source be created first using the instructions for creating a SLES9 network install source, in the target directory. Appendix B SUSE Service Packs 85 The following directions are specifically for Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 service pack 3, and cover only the changes required to add the service pack to an existing non-service pack network install source, created in the service pack enabled target directory. Service pack target directories are not cumulative. You must create a new network install source for SLES9 in the service pack enable target directory before carrying out the following instructions. Uploading installation media from a Linux workstation: 1. Log in to a shell account on Control Tower with SSH # ssh -l root <control tower ip> Navigate to the target path for the media to be uploaded. [. . . ]