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BMA User & Reference Manual V7.5 Build 1730 EN BootManage® Administrator User & Reference Manual 1 Contents OPERATING SYSTEMS AND OPERATION MODES ................................................................................... 5 OVERVIEW ........................................................................................................................................................... 6 Operating system installation (with automatic hardware detection) .............................................................. 6 Imaging for installation ................................................................................................................................... 6 Diskless operation ........................................................................................................................................... 7 Performing one time activities on a Managed PC .......................................................................................... 7 Diskless Linux network boot ........................................................................................................................... 8 Remove an operating system ........................................................................................................................... 9 Hard Disk Partitioning.................................................................................................................................... 9 CLIENT INSTALLATION ................................................................................................................................ 11 Client preparation: ........................................................................................................................................ 12 THE CLIENT PC BOOT PROCEDURE ..................................................................................................................... 12 Detecting new PCs ........................................................................................................................................ 12 Releasing a PC .............................................................................................................................................. 12 Hardware information................................................................................................................................... 13 Hierarchical groups of the client PCs ........................................................................................................... 13 WAYS OF CLIENT INSTALLATIONS (ROLL OUT) .................................................................................................. 14 The automatic Roll Out ................................................................................................................................. 14 Fully automated Roll-Out .............................................................................................................................. 14 Selective Roll-Out .......................................................................................................................................... 14 Web Server controlled Roll-Out .................................................................................................................... 16 SERVER CONFIGURATION ........................................................................................................................... 17 SERVER PROPERTIES .......................................................................................................................................... 18 BACKUP TFTP SHARE ....................................................................................................................................... 18 WINDOWS DRIVER INTEGRATION ............................................................................................................ 19 OVERVIEW ......................................................................................................................................................... 20 WINDOWS DRIVER TYPES .................................................................................................................................. 20 Plug&Play Drivers ........................................................................................................................................ 20 Boot-time (textmode) mass storage drivers ................................................................................................... 20 Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL) drivers ................................................................................................. 20 Executable device drivers .............................................................................................................................. 20 ADDING WINDOWS DRIVERS ............................................................................................................................. 20 WORKING WITH WINDOWS DRIVERS ................................................................................................................. 21 ADVANCED DRIVER SETTINGS ........................................................................................................................... 21 Driver Description ........................................................................................................................................ 21 Executable Driver Command line ................................................................................................................. 21 Driver Group Membership ............................................................................................................................ 22 WORKING WITH DRIVER GROUPS ...................................................................................................................... 22 The “DriverHandle” system variable ........................................................................................................... 22 The “DriverGroup” system variable ............................................................................................................ 22 REMOVING A DRIVER ......................................................................................................................................... 23 LINUX OS SYSTEMS ........................................................................................................................................ 24 OVERVIEW ......................................................................................................................................................... 25 DISKLESS LINUX BOOT ...................................................................................................................................... 25 UNATTENDED LINUX INSTALLATION ................................................................................................................. 26 RED HAT LINUX ................................................................................................................................................. 27 SUSE LINUX ....................................................................................................................................................... 28 CONFIGURATION VARIABLES .................................................................................................................... 31 OVERVIEW ......................................................................................................................................................... 32 DEFINE VARIABLES............................................................................................................................................ 32 Variable Properties ....................................................................................................................................... 33 Value Types ................................................................................................................................................... 33 ASSIGN VARIABLE TO OBJECT ........................................................................................................................... 34 SYSTEM VARIABLES .......................................................................................................................................... 35 2 USER VARIABLES ............................................................................................................................................... 35 VARIABLE EXAMPLE .......................................................................................................................................... 35 BOOTMANAGE ADMINISTRATOR CUSTOMIZATION .......................................................................... 38 CHANGE AND CUSTOMIZE LANGUAGE ............................................................................................................... 39 Add Additional Languages ............................................................................................................................ 39 POLLING INTERVALS FOR BACKGROUND ACTIVITIES ........................................................................................ 40 MEANS OF INDIVIDUALIZATION ............................................................................................................... 41 IMPORTANT FILES AND DIRECTORIES ................................................................................................................ 42 Base Directory .............................................................................................................................................
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