Deployment Solution

Hi,

I am working on an OS deployment through Altiris 7.1 DS. I have successfully captured a Windows 7 Enterprise 32 bit ghost image. Now i am deploying the image on to another machine. Simple deployment is working fine but i need to make sure that while deployment i create a fix C: drive partition which should be of 60 GB.

For this purpose i have used a Create Partition task and assigned the size as 60 GB in Fixed size field. But it's not working for me as the OS is getting deployed successfully but the partiton which i need to create is not getting created.

The sequence of tasks which are used in deploying OS is under mentioned

• Reboot to (PXE)
• Erase Disk
• Partition Disk
• Deploy Image
• Reboot to(Production)

I am attaching the screen shots of Erase Disk and Partiton Disk tasks which i have created. Kindly help and suggest what else is needed to be done in this regard. Any help would be highly appreciated.

Thanks

Nitin

The deploy image task also has partitioning built into it, I suspect what's happening here is that you are creating the partition using the task above and then the deploy image task's partition settings are deleting partition and re-creating a new one using 100% of the disc.

What you need to do is go into the advanced settings of your Deploy Image task, the first tab there is for partitions, set your 60GB here.

It's my understanding the create partition task is used to create partitions on the disc that will not have an image deployed to them, for example, we deploy a server 2008R2 image to a fixed size partition and then use the create partition task to create a data partition, NTDS partition and an apps partition.