Users Guide

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.

Extracting DTK components on systems running windows

DTK components are provided in a self-extracting zip file at www.dell.com/support. The self-extracting

file can be opened on any system running Microsoft Windows operating system. By default,

DTKX.XWINPE- XX.exe files are extracted to the root directory of your local hard drive, C:\. You can

change this location by giving a different path when extracting the files, but it is recommended that you

keep the DTK default directory structure if you plan to use the sample deployment scripts provided with

DTK.

1. Download the DTK file DTKX.X-WINPE-XX.exe from www.dell.com/support and save it on your

system.

2. After the file downloads, double-click the file. The Dell OpenManage Deployment Toolkit for

WindowsPE screen containing the product and download information appears.

3. Click OK.

4. Click Unzip.

By default, files are unzipped to C:\. You can unzip the DTK components to your local hard drive and

then copy them later to a network volume, or you can change the installation path to an available

network share. For example, you can unzip the files directly to the network share (for example, Z:\)

that you plan to use in the deployment process.

NOTE: Do not copy the DTK components to a Novell NetWare network volume. The DTK

network-based deployment is not supported from mapped Novell NetWare systems. The DTK

utilities do not run in Windows PE when Novell’s Client32 is loaded.

DTK components on systems running windows

Workstation is the system on which the DTK components are extracted.

Source system is an optimally configured system from which the system settings are captured.

Target system is the system on which the settings captured from the source system are replicated.