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1.7.1 First-time installations
There are typically three situations where a
In a traditional IT department with PCs, the obvious approach may be to insert the CD with the operating system and proceed from there. However, there are some pitfalls with this method in the retail environment:
Normally the
Some of the systems require specific hardware drivers to be installed during the operating system installation. This requires modifications of the default installation media or network drive.
Without any additional automation method this approach will not be very practical with hundreds or thousands of POS systems in the production environment.
This is where Tivoli Provisioning Manager for OS Deployment comes at play. Adding a new hardware driver to an existing operating system is simply a matter of downloading the driver from the provider, unpack and create a software package with the drivers. Then the system is ready for initial deployment.
1.7.2 Preparing a system for use as a master image
Once a system has been prepared with the correct drivers and optionally had one or more applications installed and configured on it, it is ready to serve as a master image.
Before the system can be captured as an image, a final set af tasks must first be completed. For a Windows system this typically includes some cleanup and deletion of
On Linux systems, there are similar cleanup activities but no special utilities to prepare the system for
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