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Oracle Hardware Installation Assistant 2.5 User's Guide for x86 Servers
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Overview of the Oracle Hardware Installation Assistant User's Guide

Getting Started With Oracle Hardware Installation Assistant

What is Oracle Hardware Installation Assistant?

Features and Benefits

Supported Provisioning Tasks List

Media Availability

Supported Operating Systems

Product Documentation Library

Launching the Application and Performing Provisioning Tasks

Local and Remote Media Launch Options for Sun Fire and Sun Blade Servers

How to Perform Provisioning Tasks

Configuring RAID

RAID Support

How to Create a RAID Volume

How to Delete a RAID Volume

Installing Windows

How to Install Windows Using Local or Remote Media

Installing Linux

How to Install Linux Using Local or Remote Media

Updating System and Component Firmware

How to Update the System BIOS and Oracle ILOM Firmware

How to Update Expander Firmware

How to Update HBA Firmware

Recovering a Service Processor

How to Recover a Service Processor

Configuring Service Processor Settings

How to Configure Service Processor Identification Information Settings

How to Configure Network Information Settings

How to Manage Oracle ILOM User Accounts

How to Set the System Clock

Configuring BIOS Boot Device Settings

How to Set the Boot Device Order

How to Set the Boot Device for the Next Boot

Setting Up PXE-Based Oracle Hardware Installation Assistant

How to Set Up the PXE Infrastructure

Preparing the Oracle Hardware Installation Assistant PXE Image Files

Launching an Attended PXE-Based Session

Attended PXE-Based Session Overview

How to Create the Image for a PXE-Based Session

How to Launch an Attended Installation From a PXE Server

Performing Unattended PXE-Based Provisioning Tasks

Unattended PXE-Based Provisioning Tasks Requirements

Creating a State File for Unattended Installation

How to Prepare for an Unattended Installation of Linux

How to Prepare for an Unattended Installation of Windows Server

How to Prepare for an Unattended Firmware Update

How to Create the Application Image and Prepare for a PXE-Based Launch

How to Launch an Unattended Session From a PXE-Based Server

Observing Unattended PXE-Based Provisioning Tasks

Establishing a Viewing Connection Using a Virtual Console or Secure Shell (SSH) Connection

How to Set Up Root and VNC Passwords

How to Establish a Connection Using a VNC Viewer

How to Establish a Connection Using a Serial Console

Troubleshooting Oracle Hardware Installation Assistant

No Driver Found Message Appears During Oracle VM 2.2.1 Server Installation

Oracle Hardware Installation Assistant Can Go Into a Loop at Last OS Install Screen

Oracle Hardware Installation Assistant Error Messages

How to View the Application Log File

How to Debug a PXE Image That Does Not Boot

Launching Oracle Hardware Installation Assistant Using a USB Flash Drive

Requirements

How to Get the Syslinux and Oracle Hardware Installation Assistant Software

Creating an Oracle Hardware Installation Assistant USB Flash Drive

How to Boot the USB Flash Drive and Launch Oracle Hardware Installation Assistant

Installing Service Tags

How to Install Service Tags in Linux

How to Install Service Tags in Windows

Index

Launching the Application and Performing Provisioning Tasks

This section explains how to launch the Oracle Hardware Installation Assistant application and perform provisioning tasks. You can launch the application using one of the local or remote media options. Additionally, you can launch the application from a PXE-based installation in either attended or unattended mode.