User's Manual

Network Based Deployment For Windows

For Windows PE environments, deployment using Remote Installation Services (RIS) is recommended. For details, see

the Microsoft RIS documentation. You can also use any other deployment tool such as Automated Deployment Services

(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, 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

The two common scenarios for deployment using Dell provided Embedded Linux are following:

• Network Based Deployment

• Media Based Deployment

Network-Based Deployment

The procedure enables you to boot DTK over network and pass parameters (startup script location and name) during

boot using the Pre-boot eXecution Environment (PXE) configuration file. This automatically launches the start-up script

off the network share, when DTK is booted.

1. Obtain the ISO image of the embedded Linux available at support.dell.com.

2. Burn the ISO image using any commonly available CD or DVD burning software.

NOTE: When you create a bootable CD/DVD, this image is supplied to the CD/DVD burning software along with

the complete deployment directory structure, which includes all necessary supporting files to perform the

deployment.

The CD or DVD burning software creates a self-bootable CD or DVD.

3. Set up the Trivial File Transfer Protocol (TFTP) services and the Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)

services on your network to boot the target system using PXE.

4. Copy the contents of the embedded Linux DTK ISO image (SA.1, SA.2, and isolinux.cfg) from /mnt/cdrom/isolinux to

the

tftp folder.

5. The isolinux.cfg file has various boot options. Select the method you want, and edit the isolinux.cfg file for the

following:

– IP address of the network share

– Share path of the network share

– Name of your startup script

6. The isolinux.cfg file is ready for PXE-booting. Copy this isolinux.cfg file into the PXE configuration folder.

7. Create your own start-up script and place it in the network share specified in your modified isolinux.cfg file.

The modified script is picked up and executed during the boot process.