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Preparing the Directory Structure for Deployment in Microsoft Windows PE 43

Setting Up a Directory Structure for Deployment

To perform a DTK-enabled deployment, you must create a deployment

directory structure on either a network share or your local workstation hard

drive. The deployment directory structure is a central repository for all

deployment files and can be used successively as a testing space, a repository

for a network deployment, and a repository to build a bootable deployment

CD. If you plan to perform a network-based deployment, you must set up the

32-bit unzip

utility

Unzip utility

partition images

in Windows PE.

www.info-zip.org

NOTE: This utility is not

provided with the Dell-

supplied DTK zip file.

However, if you choose to

use any other unzip utility

than the one specified

above, ensure that you

rename the utility to

UNZIP.EXE and that it

supports the -d option to

extract the contents to a

specified directory.

Save in one of

the path

directories of

your Windows

PE image,

preferably

\I386\system32.

upimg.bin Contains system-

specific Dell

utility partition

files.

NOTE: In the

previous releases,

each Dell system

required a unique

upimg.bin file.

Beginning this

release, the

upimg.bin file is

common for all Dell

systems.

Z:\Dell\Toolkit\

Systems, the Dell Support

website at

support.dell.com, or the

Dell Systems Build and

Update Utility CD

Save in the