Users Guide
• 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.
• Conguration 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 conguration, for example, requires the
creation of a new bootable media. This method does not provide a writable media, making it necessary to use predened and tested
conguration les.
For example the media-based deployment methods, the following tasks need to be completed:
• Creating and Customizing Images For WinPE 5.1
• Integrating The DTK Directory Structure
• Creating A Bootable Media For WIN PE 5.1
• Running The Image
Creating and customizing images for Windows PE 5.1
If you are using Windows 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 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 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 5.1 and 10.0 at <WIMPATH>.
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.
60 Running the deployment scripts