User's Manual

46 Preparing the Directory Structure for Deployment in Microsoft Windows PE

Operating System Installation Files

Creating Operating System Installation Directories for Supported Windows

Operating Systems

NOTE: The following procedures are provided as a best practices guideline for

creating operating system distribution folders compatible with the DTK sample

scripts. For complete instructions on setting up an installation directory structure

for an unattended installation, see your operating system documentation.

For deployment of supported Windows operating systems, perform the

following steps:

Create an operating system-specific directory in the root directory of the

network share. For example, for Windows Server 2003 operating system

source files, you can use the following directory name:

Z:\W2Ksrc

Create a

\I386

directory in the

\W2Ksrc

directory.

Copy the contents of the

\I386

directory on the Windows operating

system installation media to the

Z:\W2Ksrc\I386

directory on your

network share.

Create a

\$OEM$

directory in each system directory (

$OEM$.NET

for

Windows Server 2003 and

$OEM$.W2K

for Windows 2000). For

example, for Windows 2003:

Z:\Dell\Toolkit\Systems\pe2950\$OEM$.NET

The

\$OEM$

directory provides the location of supplemental files such as

drivers and configuration files to be copied to the target system during

deployment.