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Remote software deployment Setup guide for PXE and RIS evaluation Ver.1.0 1 - HP Vectra VL 5/xxx | hp business pcs, remote software deployment, setup guide fo - Page 2
Notice The information contained in this document is subject to change without notice. Hewlett-Packard makes no warranty of any kind with regard to this material, including, but not limited to, the implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose. Hewlett-Packard shall not - HP Vectra VL 5/xxx | hp business pcs, remote software deployment, setup guide fo - Page 3
PXE SERVERS 26 4.2. RIS PXE SERVER PRE-REQUISITES ...27 5. RIS SERVER SETUP ...28 5.1. RIS IMAGE CREATION: PROCEDURE TO BE FOLLOWED 28 5.2. RIS IMAGE CUSTOMIZATION: OEM DRIVERS 30 5.3. RIS CLIENT START...33 3 - HP Vectra VL 5/xxx | hp business pcs, remote software deployment, setup guide fo - Page 4
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deployment capabilities and basic troubleshooting for PXE or RIS. may not totally reflect a real configuration. Note. To guide you through the OS interface, the following notation will OK. "right click on My Computer icon" means left click to select the My Computer icon, then right click on it - HP Vectra VL 5/xxx | hp business pcs, remote software deployment, setup guide fo - Page 6
PC is equipped with a PXE server. HP provides PXE servers to help deployment in a user's software environment. will be performed on a Microsoft Windows 2000 Server Operating System. Please note that Intel PXE PDK requires a server bootable floppy disk on which to create the PXE image from which the PXE - HP Vectra VL 5/xxx | hp business pcs, remote software deployment, setup guide fo - Page 7
RIS does not use C: or any drive letter with Windows 2000 or later OSs. As such, it is a good idea to have either a second hard disk drive or use at least 2 different partitions (minimum 4GB per partition). In summary, users will need: · One PXE server, running on a Windows 2000 Server, configured - HP Vectra VL 5/xxx | hp business pcs, remote software deployment, setup guide fo - Page 8
2.2. Configuration of the Windows 2000 Server After installing the Windows 2000 server version, users should use the server wizard to setup a working DHCP server (go to Start>Programs>Administrative Tools>Configure your server). Users need to define a DHCP scope - a range of IP addresses the server - HP Vectra VL 5/xxx | hp business pcs, remote software deployment, setup guide fo - Page 9
(in this example, W2KSRV). 3 Go to Properties>Remote Install. If checked, uncheck the "Respond to client computers requesting service" box and validate this by clicking on OK. 4 Stop the associated service so that the PXE server can successfully answer client requests (otherwise the RIS server will - HP Vectra VL 5/xxx | hp business pcs, remote software deployment, setup guide fo - Page 10
Right click and then click on STOP. The service should stop. 5 Restart the server to avoid any side effects. 6 The Intel PXE PDK software can be installed by double clicking on the software package. A - HP Vectra VL 5/xxx | hp business pcs, remote software deployment, setup guide fo - Page 11
to the one below will appear: In this example, W2KSRV is the computer name of the PXE server. It is important to note that the menu choices are dependant of the icons selected. For example, the "Services" menu choice is only available (not grayed) if the server is selected - HP Vectra VL 5/xxx | hp business pcs, remote software deployment, setup guide fo - Page 12
example) and select "enable Boot Server" or/and "enable proxyDHCP Server". 3.2.2. PXE Server: ProxyDHCP Server Configuration From the main interface, right click on ProxyDHCP Server (green icon) and then click on "Configure proxyDHCP Server" In the "proxyDHCP" tab, uncheck "use DHCP port for - HP Vectra VL 5/xxx | hp business pcs, remote software deployment, setup guide fo - Page 13
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In the "Client Options" tab, check "Broadcast Discovery" only and validate this by clicking "OK". In the "Bootserver Options" tab, uncheck "Provide Multicast ..." (unless you want to use multicast) and do NOT update the IP address. It is important that the IP address is NOT within your network - HP Vectra VL 5/xxx | hp business pcs, remote software deployment, setup guide fo - Page 15
3.2.3. PXE Server: Boot Server Configuration From the main interface, right click on Boot Server (green icon) and then click "Configure Boot Server". In the "General Options" tab, uncheck "Use DHCP Port for Listening" (used when the PXE server is not a DHCP server). Uncheck all other boxes. Ensure - HP Vectra VL 5/xxx | hp business pcs, remote software deployment, setup guide fo - Page 16
In the "MTFTP Options" tab, uncheck "Enable Multicast Transmit" and validate this by clicking "OK". Note that the "MTFTP Files" tab only contains information. Users should not change anything in it. Write down how many files are displayed in this screen. If a message telling you that the number of - HP Vectra VL 5/xxx | hp business pcs, remote software deployment, setup guide fo - Page 17
should have a fixed IP address, hp recommends users to set this IP address in the following screen. Note that the operating system automatically assigns the preferred DNS server value, as DHCP Server Management: First, check that the DHCP server service has started. If the DHCP server has not yet - HP Vectra VL 5/xxx | hp business pcs, remote software deployment, setup guide fo - Page 18
Then right click on Scope Options and then Configure Options. Add option tag 66 (put your boot server's IP address. In this document, it is 192.168.1.1, which is IP address for W2KSRV) Option tag 60 should have been added by Intel tool. If this is not the case, - HP Vectra VL 5/xxx | hp business pcs, remote software deployment, setup guide fo - Page 19
The Windows should look similar to the one below: There are two options added for this example: option 6 and 15. These options are not necessary for the PXE tests, and are only added as W2KSRV also happens to be a domain controller. Users should now be ready to configure the PXE server and install - HP Vectra VL 5/xxx | hp business pcs, remote software deployment, setup guide fo - Page 20
98SE (double click on My Computer, then right click on the Floppy A: icon, select format and check Copy System Files.) Note that this procedure W2KSRV, in this document), and then click Start/Stop Services. Next, click on Start of "Intel PXE service". Both of these should start after a few minutes. - HP Vectra VL 5/xxx | hp business pcs, remote software deployment, setup guide fo - Page 21
the range of 192.168.1.5 to 192.168.1.254. 2. Is the RIS installed and running? è Check here for the procedure to check/stop the RIS service. 3. Whether you changed the network configuration during this boot. If so, restart your PC. 4. Whether there is a warning/error message from PXE - HP Vectra VL 5/xxx | hp business pcs, remote software deployment, setup guide fo - Page 22
3.2.6. Intel PXE PDK: Building & Mapping PXE Boot Images and PXE Menu 1. In PXE PDK Configuration Program, double click on "Client Boot Menu" that appears in the proxy DHCP Server. There are three architectures listed. 2. Double click on "X86PC". The references on the right (local, API, DOSUNDI, RIS - HP Vectra VL 5/xxx | hp business pcs, remote software deployment, setup guide fo - Page 23
icon). 10. Next, right click on it and then on the "add client support". In the Architecture menu select X86PC and in the Client NIC types menu select restarting the PXE service may appear. It can be disregarded (a fix for this minor issue is provided below). 12. The system now expects two - HP Vectra VL 5/xxx | hp business pcs, remote software deployment, setup guide fo - Page 24
://www.support.vectra.hp.com/vectrasupport/leve l4/1441vdg175en.exe.html Copy this file to [...]\X86PC\UNDI\boot and rename it to Myboot.0. 13. Insert the floppy diskette you want to create a PXE image from into the floppy disk drive. Launch mkimage.exe from the [...]\PDK\system folder. This - HP Vectra VL 5/xxx | hp business pcs, remote software deployment, setup guide fo - Page 25
image (MyBoot.1 file in this document). DOS drive A: will behave as if the floppy, used to create the PXE image, was present in the floppy disk drive. Note that it is not possible to read a floppy diskette in drive A: or B: as the PXE floppy emulation has replaced it. 25 - HP Vectra VL 5/xxx | hp business pcs, remote software deployment, setup guide fo - Page 26
on My Computer, then on Manage and then double-click on Services and Applications, and finally on Services. 2. Scroll down to find "Intel PXE services" and "Intel MTFTP services". 3. Right click on "Intel PXE services", then click on Properties, and then in the Startup type list box, select Manual - HP Vectra VL 5/xxx | hp business pcs, remote software deployment, setup guide fo - Page 27
will not need any forwarding/trusting to other domains for RIS to work. No configuration of the routing services is required either.) Allow the server configuration wizard to guide you through this process (go to Start>Programs>Administrative Tools>Configure your server). Check the "Active Directory - HP Vectra VL 5/xxx | hp business pcs, remote software deployment, setup guide fo - Page 28
then click on Properties, and then on the Remote Install tab. Check the "Respond to client computers requesting service" box. 3. Next, click on Advanced Settings and check the New Clients tab to customize the computer names of the RIS clients. 4. Click on the Images tab, then on Add and then check - HP Vectra VL 5/xxx | hp business pcs, remote software deployment, setup guide fo - Page 29
OS CD-ROM or copy of the OS on the hard disk drive. (Remember that any Service Pack installation should occur before this stage). Applying any Service Pack directly to the RIS image without using the image creation wizard is not supported. 6. After a valid image/CD-ROM path is entered, users are - HP Vectra VL 5/xxx | hp business pcs, remote software deployment, setup guide fo - Page 30
click on My Computer and browse through the "Images" folder described above. The procedure to install an OEM driver is described at called Drivers. 5. Under the Drivers folder, create a folder called NIC. 6. Under the NIC folder, copy all the Windows 2000 driver files downloaded from hp's support - HP Vectra VL 5/xxx | hp business pcs, remote software deployment, setup guide fo - Page 31
oemPreinstall = no" line to "oemPreinstall = yes". If this line does not exist, simply add "oemPreinstall = yes" instead. 11. Next, add "OemPnPDriversPath = \Drivers\Nic". 12. Look at the end of the file for the section called "[OSChooser]". Look for the line starting with "Description=". Change the - HP Vectra VL 5/xxx | hp business pcs, remote software deployment, setup guide fo - Page 32
14. Restart the BINL service by right clicking on My Computer, then on Manage. Double-click on Services and Applications, then on Services and then right click Boot Information and Negotiation Layer. Right click and then click on Restart. The RIS server is now ready to serve RIS clients 32 - HP Vectra VL 5/xxx | hp business pcs, remote software deployment, setup guide fo - Page 33
After a while, the message "Press F12 for network service boot" will be displayed. 2. Press the F12. \ is NOT a supported syntax in RIS, though it may work computer in the domain. The Windows 2000 administrator login is a common login used. èIf a "Windows did not find a driver
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