DRAC : Unable to use it for OS installation ? is it normal ?

[christian.peper at kpn.com]

Florent,

I deploy all my bare metal servers this way and have had no serious issues.
My server have system BIOS 1.3.7 and DRAC5 v1.20. 

On occasion, I get SSL socket errors, loose the session and any mounted ISOs. But if I simply reconnect, everything is fine and the server just went ahead with what it was doing. 
I am using a custom boot ISO (only 5 MB) to do unattended network installs with kickstart. So if it looses the connection to the CD after 1 minute, that is fine. Would I be doing a CD-based install, the loss of connection would be more seious of course. :)

Chris.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com 
> [mailto:linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com] On Behalf Of Florent Gilain
> Sent: Friday, October 31, 2008 12:19 PM
> To: linux-poweredge at lists.us.dell.com
> Subject: RE : DRAC : Unable to use it for OS installation ? 
> is it normal ?
> 
> ok, because during my tests, I was (or the remote virtual 
> storage) was disconnected after few minutes...maybe is there 
> a timeout to configure somewhere in the drac virtual cdrom/iso menu ?
> 
> Ps : each time i use the latest 5.5 SUU DVD iso/dvdrom to 
> update my PE servers (1950/2950..), DRAC firmware update 
> always fails in SUU...
> 
> Florent
> 
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> [linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com] de la part de Rainer Traut 
> [tr.ml at gmx.de] Date d'envoi : vendredi 31 octobre 2008 11:42 
> À : linux-poweredge at lists.us.dell.com Objet : Re: DRAC : 
> Unable to use it for OS installation ? is it normal ?
> 
> I just did that, updated a couple of PE2950 with el4 to el5 
> via ISO mounted from my workstation.
> 
> Be sure to use the latest firmware for the drac, I think it 
> is 1.40 and 1.50 for drac 4 and 5.
> 
> Florent Gilain schrieb:
> > Hello all,
> >
> > On my PE 1850/1950/2950, i have a DRAC and i was thinking i 
> could use it for connecting a remote CDROM/ISO to boot on it 
> and install the OS.
> >
> > but this doesn't seem to work ? did somebody has already 
> succeed in doing this ?
> >
> > for example, I tryed to update a remote ESX from 3.5 to 
> 3.5u2 using the 3.5u2 ISO bootalbe cdrom, and it failed too..
> >
> > thanks
> >
> > Florent