Owner's Manual

Downloading DTK 27

Downloading DTK

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.

For Windows

DTK components are provided in a self-extracting zip file at

support.dell.com. The self-extracting file can be opened on any system

running a Microsoft Windows operating system. By default, DTKX.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.

Perform the following steps to extract DTK components to a workstation

running Windows:

Download the DTK file

DTKX.X-WINPE-XX.exe

from

support.dell.com

and save it on your system.

After the file downloads, double-click the file.

Dell OpenManage

Deployment Toolkit for WindowsPE

screen containing the product and

download information appears.

Click