How do I add btlan1 to my Ignite bundle?

[paul courry]

Newbie central here folks........

We are trying to perfect a process whereby we can remotely Ignite a box. However we are running into a problem with a needed driver, btlan1, for our 100baseT cards. How can we add btlan1 to the basic Ignite package so we don't have to go onsite?

Yes, this *is* probably a RTFM question and yes I am busy doing that as we speak, however I would appreciate any assistance you can give me. As I've pointed out previously I am a newly minted HP9000 system administrator (ink is still wet on the Netsysco certificates) and it is time for me to put this book learning into practice. Any assistance you can render to keep me from falling flat on my resume is appreciated. (Hey! I told them to keep the HP3000's, but will they listen? Noooooo, we have to transition to the 9000's)

[John Bolene]

You just have to make a golden image from a machine that has the configuration you want to use.

That golden image is the one that you push out.

This golden image has to be re-imaged for any patched that you add in the future.

We have a process that we follow.
One machine in test lab is the machine that gets all new patches and then it is tested.

Another machine is the golden image machine that gets the patches after they have been tested. This machine is the one that the golden image is made from that gets pushed to any machines that need it or if a disk drive dies.

The patches may be applied to each production machine on an individual basis or re-ignited, whichever is faster or requires less work.

[vtpaulson]

Hi Paul,

You can eigther create a Golden image or you can put the btlan driver in a depot and update the INDEX fle so that after the ignite it will dump the btlan driver from the depot.

You can create golden image with make_sys_image in a fully loaded server (Load your btlan aswell before taking golden image)

Paulson

[Sanjay_6]

Hi,

What i understand is u have the ignite depot and u are trying to ignite a system remotely and you want to add the btlan1 bundle to the core.

If that is the case you can try this out. Have the budle on CD or download it. Go to sam->Software Management->Copy Software to Depot.

It comes to the CD Copy screen and you can select the Source of the Software and the target depot where you want to copy the bundle, in this case it will be the depot path from where ignite is picking up the Core OS.

Once you have added the bundle to the depot, in your next installation through ignite you can select the bundle alongwith the Core OS and it will install the whole thing at the same time.

Hope this helps

Sanjay

[Michael Roberts_3 · Accepted solution]

In general to add an additional software distributor (SD) source to an Ignite configuration:

1) create a depot with the SD bundle(s) you wish to have selectable

Example from CD of 11.00 sw
mount /dev/cdrom /cdrom
#determine bundles on CD
swlist -lbundle -s /cdrom
#create local depot
swcopy -s /cdrom BundleName(s) @ /depot/depotName

2) create Ignite config file
cd /var/opt/ignite/data/Rel_B.11.00
/opt/ignite/bin/make_config -s /depot/depotName -c additional_cfg

3) add the config file to the Ignite INDEX file

/opt/ignite/bin/manage_index -a -f /var/opt/ignite/data/Rel_B.11.00/additional_cfg -r B.11.00

4) check the syntax for sanity
/opt/ignite/bin/instl_adm -T

5) Ignite a machine. You should see the bundles as selectable in the software tab of the Ignite UI.

[paul courry]

Thanks to all! Please consider this call closed.