Users Guide

Running the image
You are now ready to use your bootable media to access the deployment components from the directory structure on the media:
1. Boot the target system with the bootable deployment media.
2. Execute the master batch le, which calls individual task scripts and utilities from the media to complete the deployment
process.
Media-Based local deployment with Networking enabled for systems
running windows
This method provides greater exibility and is highly recommended in large deployments. The pre-requisites are the availability of
network bandwidth and all target systems connected to the network.
NOTE: DTK network-based deployment is not supported from mapped Novell NetWare systems.
This deployment method is easy to assemble and provides great exibility in changing the scripts and conguration les. Any change
to the system conguration, for example, does not require re‑creation of the bootable media. This method also provides access to
the remote share as writable media. Hence, the conguration les captured during the deployment automation process can be saved
to the remote share.
Bootable Windows PE media with Networking enabled
This process includes:
• Creating a bootable Windows PE media with the appropriate network drivers. This step enables Networking services to start, get
an IP address, and bring the target system into a functioning network.
NOTE: For more details on how to create a customized version of a single Windows PE bootable media that works
across all Dell supported systems and provides an underlying Networking stack, see Running The Deployment Scripts.
• Creating scripts to automatically map to a predened network share.
• Accessing scripts, conguration les, and operating system installation les from the network.
Preparing and populating the network share
This process includes:
• Creating a network share on a system that is always available over the network for the target systems to be deployed.
• Ensuring that a large amount of space is available for storing operating system installation les.
• Ensuring that proper permissions are assigned to this share so that the target systems can read les from and write les to the
share.
You can also use the bootable media to call the deployment components from the directory structure on the media and the
remaining components from the network share.
1. Boot the target system with the bootable deployment media.
2. Execute the master batch le, which calls individual task scripts and utilities from the network share to complete the
deployment process.
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