Dell 4.4 Bootable Windows PE Media With Networking Enabled, Preparing And Populating The Network Share

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 predefined network share.

• Accessing scripts, configuration files, and operating system installation files from the network.

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 files.

• Ensuring that proper permissions are assigned to this share so that the target systems can read files

from and write files 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 file, which calls individual task scripts and utilities from the network share

to complete the deployment process.

Deployment Using Removable Boot Media Without A Network (Media-Based) Connection For Systems Running

Windows

For media-based deployment without a network connection:

1. Create a deployment media containing a bootable image with the appropriate drivers. The media

must also include the complete deployment directory structure, which contains all DTK utilities,

scripts, and configuration files, an operating system installation answer file, and the required

operating system installation files and drivers.

2. Insert the bootable media into the media drive of the system to be deployed (the target system).

3. Boot or reboot the target system.

The deployment process begins and the following tasks are completed:

– Windows PE or embedded Linux, as the case maybe, is installed from the media.

– The DTK scripts execute the necessary DTK utilities from the media.

– Configuration information is read from the media.

– The operating system is installed from the media.