Users Guide

Downloading DTK

This section describes some of the procedures necessary to begin the deployment process, including:

• Downloading and unzipping the Deployment Toolkit (DTK) components, including a comprehensive matrix of DTK components.

• Setting up a directory structure to facilitate a successful deployment, including a list of the supporting components that are not

included with DTK, but are needed to use DTK.

• Setting up an optimally congured source system.

• Conguring supported RAID controllers.

Topics:

• Extracting DTK components on systems running windows

• Extracting DTK components on systems running Linux

• DTK contents

• Sample scripts for deployment

• RPMs

• Documentation

• Drivers and Dell real mode kernel

Extracting DTK components on systems running

windows

DTK components are provided in a self-extracting zip le at www.dell.com/support. The self-extracting le can be opened on any system

running Microsoft Windows operating system. By default, DTKX.XWINPE- XX.exe les are extracted to the root directory of your local

hard drive, C:\. You can change this location by giving a dierent path when extracting the les, but it is recommended that you keep the

DTK default directory structure if you plan to use the sample deployment scripts provided with DTK.

1 Download the DTK le DTKX.X-WINPE-XX.exe from www.dell.com/support and save it on your system.

2 After the le downloads, double-click the le. The Dell OpenManage Deployment Toolkit for WindowsPE screen containing the

product and download information appears.

3 Click OK.

4 Click Unzip.

By default, les are unzipped to C:\. You can unzip the DTK components to your local hard drive and then copy them later to a

network volume, or you can change the installation path to an available network share. For example, you can unzip the les directly to

the network share (for example, Z:\) that you plan to use in the deployment process.

DTK components on systems running windows

Workstation is the system on which the DTK components are extracted.

Source system is an optimally congured system from which the system settings are captured.

Target system is the system on which the settings captured from the source system are replicated.

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