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Oracle Hardware Installation Assistant 2.5 User's Guide for x86 Servers |
Overview of the Oracle Hardware Installation Assistant User's Guide
Getting Started With Oracle Hardware Installation Assistant
What is Oracle Hardware Installation Assistant?
Supported Provisioning Tasks List
Launching the Application and Performing Provisioning Tasks
Local and Remote Media Launch Options for Sun Fire and Sun Blade Servers
Local and Remote Media Launch Options for Sun Fire Servers
Local and Remote Media Launch Options for Sun Blade Servers
How to Perform Provisioning Tasks
How to Install Windows Using Local or Remote Media
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
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
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
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
How to Install Service Tags in Linux
This section describes how to launch the Oracle Hardware Installation Assistant application using one of the supported local or remote media options.
Before You Begin
For local and remote media options, see Local and Remote Media Launch Options for Sun Fire and Sun Blade Servers.
Your server must have internet access (typically through a proxy server).
Locally using a CD/DVD: Insert the Oracle Hardware Installation Assistant application CD/DVD into the server’s CD/DVD drive (integral or USB attached) and power on or reboot the server.
Locally using a USB flash drive: Plug the USB Oracle Hardware Installation Assistant flash drive directly into one of the server’s USB ports. Use the BIOS Setup utility to redirect the server to boot from the USB flash drive and reboot the server. See Launching Oracle Hardware Installation Assistant Using a USB Flash Drive.
Remotely from a CD/DVD or image file: Log in to the server’s service processor from a remote console (or KVMS) using the Oracle ILOM interface and use the Remote Control Launch Redirection feature to redirect the server to the virtual CD/DVD drive that contains the Oracle Hardware Installation Assistant application CD/DVD image. Reboot the server and direct it to boot from your virtual CD/DVD drive (typically accomplished using the F8 menu that is available during server boot).
Note - Starting the application from a redirected CD/DVD or ISO media can take up to several minutes. During that time the application's Launch screen appears and displays a progress indicator.
Remotely using a PXE-based image: If you are using PXE network booting to load the Oracle Hardware Installation Assistant application image from a Linux-based PXE server, see Launching an Attended PXE-Based Session.
Next Steps