Deployment Guide
Media-Based local deployment with Networking enabled for systems running windows......................................... 54
Bootable Windows PE media with Networking enabled...........................................................................................54
Preparing and populating the network share.............................................................................................................54
Deployment using removable boot media without a network (media-based) connection for systems running
windows........................................................................................................................................................................... 55
Network based deployment for systems running windows...........................................................................................55
Using a third-party deployment solution framework for systems running windows.................................................. 55
Using Windows Pre-installation Environment driver CAB files for systems running Windows.................................55
Deployment using Dell provided embedded Linux...........................................................................................................55
Network-based deployment.........................................................................................................................................56
Media-based deployment............................................................................................................................................. 57
Deployment using customized embedded Linux............................................................................................................. 58
Using a third-party deployment solution framework for systems running Linux........................................................ 59
8 Running Dell update packages on systems running embedded Linux............................................... 60
Running update packages in Dell-provided embedded Linux........................................................................................ 60
Running update packages in customized embedded Linux........................................................................................... 60
9 Known issues and frequently asked questions...............................................................................62
Known issues....................................................................................................................................................................... 62
General issues................................................................................................................................................................ 62
RAIDCFG issues.............................................................................................................................................................62
SYSCFG issues...............................................................................................................................................................62
Windows PE installation issues.................................................................................................................................... 62
Embedded Linux installation issues............................................................................................................................. 62
Frequently asked questions................................................................................................................................................62
General deployment questions.....................................................................................................................................63
RAIDCFG questions.......................................................................................................................................................63
SYSCFG questions........................................................................................................................................................ 64
Embedded Linux questions.......................................................................................................................................... 65
Windows PE questions................................................................................................................................................. 65
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