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Easy Re-Imaging with Linux 

Oct 03, 2008 01:06 PM

I recently had a coworker who wanted an easy way to reimage a machine while at the machine. Since we use HII, I needed to find a way that he could select the whole job since it includes driver injection based on the computer model. Upon investigation, I found an option within the Linux Pre Boot environment.

The Linux agent portion of the preboot environment has a parameter called FORCE_NEW. By default this is set to false. If you set it to new, every time a computer boots to this pre boot environment, it will be treated as a new computer and automatically go to the initial deployment screen.

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Nov 10, 2008 10:54 PM

For more Linux imaging checkout TheDude05 articles

Oct 11, 2008 05:41 PM

It would be better to add an additional boot menu option that had this FORCE_new option turned on, and call something like REIMAGE PC NOW. This allows someone the ability while at the workstation to re-image right now but have to make a specific choice versus change the default behavior of the normal preboot environment, this allows for less of chance of a user or anyone accidentally re-image their PC, especially if you you are not taking care of the backing up data before blowing away their pc.

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