Users Guide

Creating a bootable media for Windows PE 5.1

To create a bootable media:

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

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

3 Navigate to C:\program les\Windows AIK\Tools\amd64 directory on the system.

4 Execute the script: WINPE5.0_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, WINPE5.0_driverinst.bat C:\winpe_50 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 5.0 at <WIMPATH>.

NOTE: The destination folder (C:\winpe_50) 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.

NOTE: The execution script contains the following step, you can skip running the command.

Run the following command: oscdimg -n -bc:\winpe_50\etfsboot.com c:\winpe_50\ISO c:

\winpe_50\WinPE5.0.iso

WinPE5.1 iso, a media bootable ISO image is created.

You can use any CD or DVD burning software to burn the image onto a CD or DVD. After burning the ISO image, ensure that it boots from

the CD or DVD drive for all the supported Dell systems you plan to deploy. After it boots, you are advised to test all the tools and scripts on

these systems to make sure that the integration is successful and that there are no issues with hardware components not being

recognized.

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.

Running the deployment scripts