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Deploy your favorite OS by pressing F12, bring your own ISO's, we'll do the rest

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Collegiate:
No

One-line Description:
Deploy your favorite OS by pressing F12, bring your own ISO's, we'll do the rest

Filename:
uda14.zip

Size Compressed:
280

Allocated Memory:
256

Username:
root

Password:
test

VMware Tools Installed?:
No

Operating System:
Fedora Core 5

Torrent?:
No

Applications:
RIS for linux package
Apache
pxelinux
Cabextract
Samba
tftpd (with case-insensitive patch from the RIS for linux package)
dhcpd

Last Updated:
January 12, 2008 - 06:30

Description:
UDA Getting Started
Visit the website at
http://www.ultimatedeployment.org
Download the appliance version 1.4 from:
http://www.ultimatedeployment.org/uda14.zip
The MD5 sum of the file is:
ea909baf9b9fbb809696be7741065ebd
Ultimate Deployment Appliance
Version 1.4
0. Introduction
The Ultimate Deployment Appliance will help you deploy your servers or workstations. The goal of the project is to be able to fully deploy a computer by booting to PXE and choosing the prepared operating system template. Of course this is already possible, but as I discovered, it takes a lot of time to setup a service like this. This appliance will do it for you. Windows, Linux (Fedora, Ubuntu, Suse), Solaris X86 and VMWare ESX 2.x.x and 3.x.x are supported.
Connect your laptop to an uninstalled system with a network cross-cable, boot the server up with PXE and choose the operating system template you have prepared on your laptop. This appliance is geared towards totally unattended installations, so after choosing the template you can sit back and relax.
The appliance will mount the ISO files of your operating system install CD/DVD's and import only a very small subset of the files required for PXE booting other clients. Installation files and packages are served by the appliance right from the ISO images (samba/nfs/http).
1. Getting Started
1.1 Default settings

• root password
  The default root password for this appliance is: test
  You can change the root password from the command prompt.
  
• admin password
  The default admin password for the webinterface of this appliance is: admin
  You can change the admin password using the web-interface
  
• IP Configuration
  IP Address: 10.0.0.104
  Netmask: 255.0.0.0
  Gateway: 10.0.0.1
  You can change the IP settings using the web-interface
  
• DHCP Server
  Range: 10.0.0.100 - 10.0.0.200
  You can change the DHCP settings using the web-interface.
  

1.2 Before you start
Using this appliance is at your own risk.

1. Make sure that you do not have other DHCP servers on your network (or live with the dangers)
   
2. Fire up the Ultimate Deployment Appliance
   
3. Log in on the appliance console as root (default user is root, password see above)
   
4. Change the root password (use passwd)
   
5. Browse to http://10.0.0.104
   
6. Login as admin (default password see above)
   
7. Change the admin password from the webinterface
   
8. Check/change the IP settings (Make sure no other computers on the network use the same IP)
   
9. Check/change the DHCP settings
   

1.3 Hints and tips

1. It's easy to hack, break, misuse etc. this appliance. If you find a problem help me fix it or don't complain.
   
2. Use Filezilla for downloading your favorite Linux DVD iso file, it can handle files larger than 2 gb.
   
3. Use 1-disk distributions, since the appliance can't change disks for you. Windows is usually shipped as 1 CD-distributions, but Linux comes with many packages, so to get a good install get DVD ISO's.
   

2. Software and support
2.1 Supported operating systems
The following table shows what operating systems can be remotely installed over the network using the Ultimate Deployment Appliance.

• Linux Fedora Core 4 (Retrieves both the kickstart file and the installation packages over http)
  
• Linux Fedora Core 5 (Retrieves both the kickstart file and the installation packages over http)
  
• Windows XP Professional (Home edition is not tested, but might work)
• Windows 2000 Server (Workstation and Andvanced server are not tested, but may work)
  
• Windows 2003 Enterprise Edition (Standard and web edition are not tested but may work)
  
• Ubuntu Linux 6.06 LTS (Uses kickstart)
  
• Suse Linux 10.0, 10.1 and 10.2 (uses Autoyast)
  
• Solaris 10 X86 (Uses Jumpstart)
  
• VMWare ESX 2.5.x and 3.x.x (Uses Kickstart)
  
• BartPE (Live CD over PXE)
  
• Recovery Is Possible (Live CD over PXE)
  
• Damn Small Linux (Live CD over PXE)
  
• GParted (Live CD over PXE)
  

2.2 Used software and information

1. Fedora Core 4
   
2. RIS for linux package
   
3. Apache
   
4. pxelinux
   
5. Cabextract
   
6. Samba
   
7. tftpd (with case-insensitive patch from the RIS for linux package)
   
8. dhcpd
   

For more information go to the website at:
http://www.ultimatedeployment.org

Technical Specifications

Operating System:

Fedora Core 5

VMware Tools installed: No

Size: 280MB

Allocated Memory (RAM): 256

Applications Installed:

RIS for linux packageApachepxelinuxCabextractSambatftpd (with case-insensitive patch from the RIS for linux package)dhcpd

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