Deployment Solution

Introduction

Lately we have been running into a lot of issues with creating boot disks for computers with SATA CD-ROM drives. It seems most the boot disks out there are only compatible with IDE CD-ROM drives.

What I have done is create a bootable CD with SATA Supported CD-ROM drives. I then burn the image I usually deploy with PXE onto a DVD. I then use this DVD to deploy the image. We have had to do this process for machines that for one reason or another cannot pull the image from PXE.

Here is the step by step process to set this up.

Building the boot disk

This part is easy enough. I have built the boot disk for you and have created an image file from it. Simply burn the Image File (.iso) that is attached to this article I have supplied two boot disks. One for Sata CD-ROMS (SATA boot disk) and one for IDE CD-ROMS (win 98 boot disk)

Building the image disk

Once you have your image built you will need to convert it to a disk image so that you can burn it to deploy from a DVD.

• Open your deployment console
• Open the Image Explorer
  

  

• Go to File -> then select "Make Self-Extracting"

  

• Select the image and click ok

  

Burn the .exe file onto a DVD as just regular data.

How it all comes together (the conclusion)

1. Place the bootable CD you have burned in the computer and boot to it.
2. Once at the command prompt, remove the bootable CD and put the Image CD into the drive.
3. At the command prompt, open the CD, this is usually done with the command: cd d:
4. Execute the image by typing the filename of the image. Example d:\>SCS.exe

This is just one possible way this can be done. There are many others that may be simpler. Hope this helps some people out. Good Luck!