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Initiating a Remote Boot Using a Floppy Boot Image
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Appendix C Installing and Using TFTP In the following procedure, you format a floppy disk to include system (boot) capability and load the software (drivers, applications) that you want run during the boot process. Finally when you have provided all necessary software components to the disk, you copy an image of the floppy to your TFTP server using copydisk.exe. To create a floppy boot image: 1. Insert a 1.44MB floppy disk in drive A and format it. This could be at a Windows 95, 98 or 2000 client, but to ensure that the diskette has enough room for all the files, use a system with MS-DOS 6.x. At a DOS prompt: enter the command format /s a: The /s parameter instructs DOS to include the system on the disk, making the disk bootable. 2. Copy all drivers and software (e.g. BIOS update) to the floppy disk drive. Create an appropriate autoexec.bat file on the floppy to run the desired program(s). 3. Using the HP Copydisk utility, create a floppy boot image file in the root directory of your TFTP server. Use the following syntax: copydisk a: x:\path\filename.dsk where a: is the source diskette and x:\path\filename is the destination drive, path and filename with a .dsk extension for your image file. An image file is created and transferred to the designated directory. Initiating a Remote Boot Using a Floppy Boot Image There are two ways to boot the HP Server using a remote boot image: • Remote Boot Option 1 requires "hands-on" access at the HP Server. • Remote Boot Option 2 uses the HP Server Remote Management Card web interface. Remote Boot Option 1 To use Remote Boot Option 1 method, you must have properly configured the HP Server Remote Management Card. Refer to "Running the HP Server Remote Management Card BIOS Setup Program" in Chapter 4. In Remote Boot Option 1, you start from the user interface stored in the HP Server Remote Management Card ROM based setup options. 1. Boot the HP Server. 80