Deployment Solution

We currently have 2 Deployment Solution servers, one for our home office and one for our field offices.  We are going to consolidate the two servers down to 1 server.  The problem is that we have Automation Partitions instaled that point to each of the servers depnding on their location.  When we consoliate the servers we need to be able to udate the Automation Partiton for the workstations that point to DS1 to point to DS2.  Is there a way to update the imbedded Automation Partition to point it to the other server?  Would it be possible to us FIRM to change the Automation Partition?

Thanks for any help

Stanley Pritchet

Hi Spritchet,

My guess is that you could certainly do this with FIRM, but if you are using embedded partitions why not create a new Windows embedded partition installer package and re-run this on the target workstations? This would perhaps be simpler than updating the embedded partition itself. Each server will need a reboot with either approach.

I would personally only go for the FIRM approach for the bootworks partitions which contain  files/data which you don't want deleted. Typically this means those those larger hidden partitions which are often used for local image stores.

If you want to pursue the FIRM approach, let us know what automation OS you are using, and we'll dig out the correct file to change for you.

Hi,

I have a similar scenario where i need to drop some installation files down onto a different partition,

firstly i am dropping some drivers onto the C: with firm -recurse copy "/mnt/ds/drv/DRIVERS/HP" "prod:/Drivers"

is there a way i can use firm to copy my installers onto the D: ?

I imagine i just need to set prod to D: rather than C:

Thanks
Mike,

You will probably have to use the explicit disk/partition syntax for this, 

i.e.  firm -recurse copy "/mnt/ds/drv/DRIVERS/HP" "d1p2:/Drivers"