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Deployment methods, Pxe deployment – HP BL2X220C User Manual

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64 MB of RAM

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64 MB of free hard drive space

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10-Mb/s network adapter

PXE deployment server (storing boot images)

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AMD Athlon™ XP processor (700 MHz or greater recommended), AMD Athlon™ 64 processor,
or Intel® Pentium® III or higher processor (500 MHz recommended)

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256 MB of RAM

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10-Mb/s network adapter

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CD-ROM drive

Windows® repository server (Windows® or Linux deployment)

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Windows® 2000 or Windows Server® 2003 OS installed

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Network connection

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CD-ROM drive

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1.5 GB of available disk space

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TCP/IP networking and an IP address compatible with one of the following: the iLO 3 Diagnostic
Port IP address or an assigned DHCP or static IP address

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CD-ROM drive and/or diskette drive

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Any of the following Java™ Runtime Environment versions:
1.3.1_02
1.3.1_07
1.3.1_08
1.4.1 for Windows® users only
1.4.2 for Linux users only
Access the Java™ Runtime Environment versions at the HP website
(

http://java.sun.com/products/archive/index.html

).

Network server with an OS installed

Deployment methods

Three primary deployment methods are supported:

IMPORTANT:

To deploy a server blade without the HP Insight Control server deployment,

create a bootable diskette or image of a bootable diskette.

PXE deployment (on page

30

)

CD-ROM deployment (on page

31

)

Diskette image deployment (on page

32

)

PXE deployment

PXE enables server blades to load an image over the network from a PXE server, and then execute it in

memory. The first NIC on the server blade is the default PXE boot NIC, but any of the other NC series

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