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Trap [Exception] { “In PowerShell” }

http://huddledmasses.org/trap-exception-in-powershell/

Reset HP ILO Via the Command Line

Log on to the HP iLo using SSH and execute the following commands (in BOLD)…

</>hpiLO-> cd /map1
status=0
status_tag=COMMAND COMPLETED

</map1>hpiLO-> reset
status=0
status_tag=COMMAND COMPLETED
Resetting iLO.

CLI session stopped

Your SSH session will be terminated and should be able to connect via the web interface.

Create a windows 7 Bootable USB thumbdrive

Here are the steps that i followed to create a bootable USB drive.  Also if you have a USB drive that has U3 installed on it you may want to uninstall it prior to continuing.  Here are the instructions on how to uninstall U3 http://www.u3.com/uninstall

Format the Flash Drive

Run CMD.EXE and type the following.  Note: This set of commands assumes that the USB flash drive is addressed as ”disk 1″.  you should double check that by doing a list of the disks (type “list disk”) before cleaning it. 

1. diskpart
2. select disk 1 (assuming disk 1 was your thumb drive in the above list disk command)
3. clean
4. create partition primary
5. select partition 1
6. active
7. format fs=fat32
8. assign
9. exit

Copy the Contents of the DVD to the USB Drive

Simply issue the following command to start copying all the content from the Windows 7 DVD to your newly formatted high speed flash drive.

• xcopy d:\*.* /s/e/f e:\

And that’s it.  Boot up the machine, have it boot off the USB drive, and watch how fast the installation completes.