Owner's Manual

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Insert the bootable media into the media drive of the system to be

deployed (the target system).

Boot or reboot the target system.

The deployment process begins and the following tasks are completed:

• Windows PE or embedded Linux, as the case maybe, is loaded

from the media.

• DTK scripts execute the necessary DTK utilities from the media.

• Configuration information is read from the media.

• The operating system is installed from the media.

Network-Based Deployment (Remote) for

Windows

For Windows PE environments, deployment using RIS is recommended.

(For details, see the Microsoft RIS documentation.) You can also use any other

deployment tool such as ADS.

Using a Third-Party Deployment Solution

Framework for Windows

You can use DTK with any existing third-party deployment solution

framework that provides an

Automated Deployment Services (ADS)

booting

infrastructure for Windows Deployment Services (WDS) that can be used as

the transport mechanism for DTK utilities. Because each third-party

deployment framework is unique, however, these solutions fall outside the

scope of this document. If you plan to utilize a third-party deployment

solution framework, keep in mind that DTK is a Windows PE-based set of

tools and scripts, so the deployment solution framework must also support

Windows PE as a pre-operating system environment.

Deployment Using Dell-Provided Embedded Linux

There are two common scenarios:

• Network-Based Deployment

• Media-Based Deployment