Chapter 4: Introduction to Imaging using PXE
Updated: 17 Jan 2012 | 9 comments
In this fourth article taken from my Deployment Solution Training notes, we will take a peek at imaging. We'll begin by covering some imaging basics with PXE, highlighting how the Deployment Solution agents work in partnership in both the imaging and user's environment to provide a seamless deployment mechanism.
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Great as Always
Great job Ian... Awesome infromation as always :)
Jonathan Jesse
Director of Training
ITS Partners
Jonathan Jesse Practice Principal ITS Partners
Nice Job
I wish I would have had this document the first time I set up PXE, great work!
Thanks, Chris Bashlor
Hmm PXE
As the Altiris PXE server often works straight out-the-box without tweaking
Oh how I laughed and laughed. PXE is fab when it works and real pain when it inexplicably decides today is the day. Oh and don't ever do an upgrade.
Otherwise an good article.
Good Explanation
Really a good explanation, really appreciate
Regards
Darshan
MCSE,CCNA,MCTS,ITIL V3
Regards
Darshan
MCSE,CCNA,MCTS,ITIL V3
Excellent Work
Nicely explianed the process of PXE..
Hello everyone, I am new to
Hello everyone, I am new to this Altiris process also and need some serious help. I have been putting this project on hold for a bit because I travel a lot for my job. I only have a few more weeks to get this done before I go back on the road. So please if anyone can assist I would greatly appreciate it. I recently set up the system and started creating images to deploy to my brand new, never been touched, Lenovo Laptops T500,2gig, 160 gig, Dual core Cintrino 2.8ghz. and Think Center pc's with simular stats. So far creating the PC's images and deploying them seem to be ok. My problem exist witht he Laptops. I can get them to create the images but when the image is done and the sysprep begins to restart windows, I get the BSB (blue screen blues) and the system continues to reboot. The error message is Driver IRQ error and a code of 0x00000D1. have looked it up and it never fails the code make no sense as to what's happening or how to resolve the error ez. So the chase is on. Below are the steps I am using.
Did I mention, I could use some serious help. I am almost at a stand still till I get pass this point.
Upgrade your BIOS, and Intel Matrix Storage Drivers and Graphics
Hi,
Whenever I get odd issues like this, my first port of call is to update the system BIOS and then the drivers. The critical ones are usually the VGA and storage drivers. Pop over to the lenovo site and make sure you've got the latest and greatest installed.
Kind Regards,
Ian./
Ian Atkin, Senior Developer for the ICT Support Team, Oxford University, UK
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Remote image server
Great intro to PXE boot. Can anyone point me in the right direction for information on setting up a image reposritry box. We have a DR site and I wish to PXe boot but use a local image server so the line is not over utilised. Any help would be great
Imaging without PXE
Hi Guys,
I want to start imaging without PXE service. I am using DS 6.9 - SP5 and for some reason I am not able to use PXE in my network, can I boot the machines using a USB/CD to connect to the DS server and deploy an image manually?
Thanks.
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