User's Manual

Preparing the Directory Structure for Deployment in Microsoft Windows PE 31

Preparing the Directory Structure

for Deployment in Microsoft

Windows PE

This section describes some of the procedures necessary to begin the

deployment process, including:

• Downloading and unzipping the Deployment Toolkit (DTK) components,

including a comprehensive matrix of DTK components

• Setting up a directory structure to facilitate a successful deployment,

including a list of the supporting components that are not included with

DTK, but are needed to use DTK

• Setting up an optimally configured source system

• Configuring supported RAID controllers

Upgrading Your DTK Version

When upgrading from a previous release (2.x) of DTK, ensure that you create

the new DTK version 3.x environment separately from your previous version

of DTK. This step is necessary because the environments and requirements

for DTK version 3.x are completely different.

Obtaining DTK

DTK components are provided in a self-extracting zip file on the Dell

Support website at support.dell.com. The self-extracting file can be opened

on any system running a Microsoft Windows operating system. By default,

DTK3.X-WINPE-XX.exe files are extracted to the root directory of your local

hard drive, C:\. This location can be changed by giving a different path when

extracting the files, but it is strongly recommended that you keep DTK

default directory structure if you plan to use the sample deployment scripts

provided with DTK.