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.
A Google/Connect search would have served you much faster than me here ;-)
The BootDisk Creator document I was referring to is here, http://www.symantec.com/connect/articles/dont-let-bootdisk-creator-eat-your-thumb-drive
Kind Regards, Ian./
Hi,
Thank for the message.
How do I access the document?
Avinash
On most of our networks here, we can't deploy PXE. We use USB flash drives with syslinux which hosts both linux and WinPE automation options. I've got a document out here on connect titled "Don't let usb creator eat your thumb drives" -this will help.
We also have an in-house solution called 'SmartImage'. This searches for the required image file on the local drives before resorting to the server hosted image for deployment.
Sorry for brevity. Am currently heavily participating in IT rollout celebrations ;-)
Hello, I am in a similar situation to where PXE is not currently an option on my network and would like to use boot media to connect to my SMP 7.1 server. Have you made in progress with this? If so I would like to hear how it works.
Thanks.
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.
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.