Users Guide

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Running the deployment scripts
This chapter provides best practices, procedures, and scenarios for using the Deployment Toolkit (DTK) to perform pre‑operating
system conguration tasks and to install supported operating systems on supported Dell systems.
After you have populated the deployment directory structure with all necessary les and carefully edited the deployment scripts and
congurations les, you are ready to begin the nal stage of the deployment process. Before running the deployment, however,
create specic deployment media to facilitate your chosen deployment method. The common deployment scenarios are:
• Media-Based Local Deployment For Systems Running Microsoft Windows
• Media-Based Local Deployment With Networking Enabled For Systems Running Windows
• Deployment Using Removable Boot Media With A Network Connection (Media-Based) For Systems Running Windows
• Deployment Using Removable Boot Media Without A Network Connection (Media-Based) Connection For Systems Running
Windows
• Network Based Deployment For Systems Running Windows
• Using A Third-Party Deployment Solution Framework For Systems Running Windows
• Deployment Using Dell Provided Embedded Linux
• Deployment Using Customized Embedded Linux
• Using A Third-Party Deployment Solution Framework For Systems Running Linux
Deployment using removable boot media with a network connection
(media-based) for systems running windows
For media-based deployment with a network connection:
1. Create a deployment media containing a bootable image with the appropriate media and network drivers, along with any utilities
needed to connect to a network share. The deployment media initiates the deployment process by mapping to the network
share where the deployment directory structure resides.
2. Insert the bootable media into the appropriate drive of the system to be deployed.
3. Boot or reboot the system.
The conguration process begins and the following tasks are completed:
• Windows PE or Linux, as the case may be, is installed from the media.
• Network shares are mapped.
• The DTK scripts execute the necessary DTK utilities from the network share or the media itself.
• Conguration information is read from the network share.
• The operating system is installed from a network share. This installation may happen after your system reboots.
Media-based local deployment for systems running microsoft windows
This deployment method is easy to assemble, but is the least exible. Any change to the system conguration, for example, requires
the creation of a new bootable media. This method does not provide a writable media, making it necessary to use predened and
tested conguration les.
For the media-based deployment methods, the following tasks need to be completed:
• Creating and Customizing Images For WinPE 5.1
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