I recently found a very helpful nugget with regards to OS Provisioning with HP’s Server Automation product.<\/p>\n
OS Prov is most typically done using PXE<\/a> (or the similar bootp<\/a> process). SA provides a PXE server that gives a boot menu to network-booted systems. That menu contains a variety of choices: linux, windows, winpe<\/a>, etc.<\/p>\n In most environments, one particular OS will be dominant, and typically one particular version<\/em>\u00a0of that OS – whether it be RHEL 5 x64 or Windows 2008 R2, it’s usually just one that makes up the lion’s*<\/sup> share of systems on the network.<\/p>\n If you know that you will be provisioning, say, Windows 2008 R2 90% of the time, it would be nice to not have to always<\/em>\u00a0have to pick it\u00a0manually\u00a0from the PXE boot menu.<\/p>\n Here’s what you need to do to make that happen (presuming you want to use Build Plans):<\/p>\n Edit the following file:<\/p>\n For example, if you have this at the beginning of the file:<\/p>\n Change it to this for the OGFS version of winpe64:<\/p>\n You can use the above process – modified, of course – for any of the available boot images.<\/p>\n *And if you’re provisioning Mac OS X 10.7, “Lion” makes up all the share \ud83d\ude42<\/sub><\/sup><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I recently found a very helpful nugget with regards to OS Provisioning with HP’s Server Automation product. OS Prov is most typically done using PXE (or the similar bootp process). SA provides a PXE server that gives a boot menu to network-booted systems. That menu contains a variety of choices: linux, windows, winpe, etc. In …\/opt\/opsware\/boot\/tftpboot\/pxelinux.cfg\/default<\/code><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\"prompt 1
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