Deployment Guide

Media-based local deployment for systems

running microsoft windows

This deployment method is easy to assemble, but is the least flexible. Any change to the system configuration, for example, requires the

creation of a new bootable media. This method does not provide a writable media, making it necessary to use predefined and tested

configuration files.

For the media-based deployment methods, the following tasks need to be completed:

• Creating And Customizing Images For Windows PE 3.0

• Creating and Customizing Images For WinPE 4.0 and 5.1

• Integrating The DTK Directory Structure

• Creating A Bootable Media For WIN PE 3.0

• Running The Image

Creating and customizing images for Windows PE 3.0

If you are using Windows PE 3.0, download Windows Automated Installation Kit (Windows AIK) from microsoft.com. By default,

Windows AIK is copied to the C:\Program Files\Windows AIK directory. You must include the Dell-customized drivers and

instrumentation drivers into your Windows PE media-based operating system.

Creating and customizing images for Windows PE 4.0 and

5.1

If you are using Windows PE 4.0 or 5.1, download Windows Assessment and Deployment Kit (ADK) from microsoft.com. By default,

Windows ADK is copied to the C:\Program Files\Windows Kits directory.

Integrating DTK directory structure

DTK provides WINPE3.0_driverinst.BAT (for Windows PE 3.0), WINPE4.0_driverinst.BAT (for Windows PE 4.0),

WINPE5.x_driverinst.BAT (for Windows PE 5.1), and WINPE10.x_driverinst.BAT scripts to pre-install the Dell drivers into a base

Windows PE 3.0, Windows PE 4.0, Windows PE 5.1, and Windows PE 10.0 images. To execute the script (for example,

WINPE10.x_driverinst.BAT) on 64-bit systems:

NOTE: Make sure that you have administrator privileges before running the scripts.

1. At the command prompt, type the following command to change the directory to the location of the script,

WINPE10.x_driverinst.BAT : cd C:\Dell\x64\Drivers\winpe10.x

2. Execute the script: WINPE10.x_driverinst.BAT <WIMPATH> <DTKPATH>

where <WIMPATH> is the destination path to create the directory structure for Windows PE and <DTKPATH> is the path for the Dell

drivers in the extracted DTK toolkit. For example, WINPE10.x_driverinst.BAT C:\winpe_10 C:\DELL\x64\DRIVERS.

This pre-installs the Dell drivers into Windows PE image. The successful execution of the above commands creates a bootable ISO

image for Windows PE 4.0, 5.1 and 10.0 at <WIMPATH>. For creating a bootable media for Windows PE 3.0, see Creating A Bootable

Media For WIN PE 3.0.

NOTE:

The destination folder (C:\winpe_10) is created as part of the process, and must not be an existing

directory. The destination path and the path to the Dell drivers must not contain any blank space.

Creating a bootable media for Windows PE 3.0

To create a bootable media:

1. Click Start and navigate to All Programs > Microsoft Windows AIK.

2. Click Windows PE Tools Command Prompt to open a command prompt window.

3. Navigate to C:\program files\Windows AIK\Tools\x32 or C:\program files\Windows AIK\Tools\amd64

directory on the system.

Running the deployment scripts