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How to run DeployAnywhere when a boot package is delivered via PXE

Thank you,

Randy

Hi Randall,

thanks for the quick reply, any thoughts on rest of my question, any sort of help would be much appriciated.
thanks again mate

-mEtho

Hi there!

I'm sorry I glossed over the other items before. In all honesty, I feel DeployAnywhere works best as a disaster recovery tool than as a tool for mass deployment over different hardware. The reason I say this is because if I were to be responsible for a mass deployment, I would be using Microsoft Sysprep with a customized answer file and the appropriate drivers on the source machine, as descfribed in this article:

 How to Add OEM Plug and Play Drivers to Windows XP

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314479

The reason for this is that Sysprep is an image creation step, in that you set up the machine beforehand, create the image, and then deploy the image and be done. With DeployAnywhere, you forego the preparation and increase deployment time. It is an excellent tool for when you need to apply an image to a dissimilar machine, such as in a case where the old machine is lost or destroyed. But yes, it only applies NIC and storage drivers. 

Thank you,

Randy

I have a script running in WinPE after imaging to, based on the computer model, copy a folder of drivers from the server to the computer, and set the DevicePath registry key to the drivers folder.

My script looks like this:

REM Deploy XP SP3 Drivers

 

echo Hardware Model number is %#!computer@model_num%

set model=%#*"SELECT REPLACE(model_num,' ','_') FROM computer WHERE computer_id=%ID%"%

 

:SP3

%ALTIRIS_SHARE%\RDeploy\Windows\firm.exe -recurse copy .\Drivers\%model% PROD:\drivers

cscript %ALTIRIS_SHARE%\pnppath.vbs /folder:"C:\drivers" /level:"3" /reg /newosdrive:"C:"

if exist %ALTIRIS_SHARE%\Drivers\%model%\hal.dll goto InjectHAL

goto Exit

 

:InjectHAL

%ALTIRIS_SHARE%\RDeploy\Windows\firm.exe Copy PROD:\drivers\hal.dll PROD:\windows\system32\hal.dll

goto Exit

:Exit
exit

I got all of my information from this forum post though:
https://www-secure.symantec.com/connect/articles/hardware-independent-imaging-another-angle

And the pnppath script from:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/2006.0...