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jdan
Member for: 5 years 17 weeks

Job Title: Dev Manager

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discussion comment 27 Oct 2008

jdan commented on: WinPE Dagent.exe

I also read Altiris KB # 42196 about this exception. That KB could help.

discussion comment 27 Oct 2008

jdan commented on: Looking for Linux 6.8.8397 .frm file

Only the most recent version is available from the downloads. For previous versions, call Altiris support. Support is free, right?

discussion comment 27 Oct 2008

jdan commented on: WinPE - Unload registry settings

The Windows utility called "reg", has command line options to allow you to delete registry keys. (open a command shell on your computer, and type "reg /?" to see the syntax). As part of your job, have a script task that will run in WinPE that ...

discussion comment 23 Oct 2008

jdan commented on: pxe server on win2008

DS (including the PXE server) won't work properly on Win2008 until version 6.9 SP1. That is the first version that supports running on Win2008. You might be able to get parts running before 6.9 SP1, but it is not supported by Altiris.

discussion comment 23 Oct 2008

jdan commented on: WinPE Dagent.exe

See if there is an updated dagent available. There may have been some hotfixes to dagent in 6.9. But in the mean time, 6.9 SP1 has been released - you could try that.

discussion comment 23 Oct 2008

jdan commented on: Linux Boot disk

Just create a Create/Capture Image job in the DS console, and assign the job to the client you want to create an image of. If you have created a PXE linux boot image, then in the job, make sure that it specifies to use the linux PXE boot image ...

discussion comment 23 Oct 2008

jdan commented on: Looking for Linux 6.8.8397 .frm file

Call Altiris support.?

discussion comment 23 Oct 2008

jdan commented on: Network Boot Disk - Marvell Yukon 88E8042

Does a driver for this nic device show up in the boot disk creator, on the drivers page? Have you selected that driver so that it is included in your DOS boot image? Although you can look at the text description of the driver, it might be best ...

discussion comment 23 Oct 2008

jdan commented on: %altiris_share%

This environment variable is only available form the automation environments. It's purpose is to point back to the Deployment Shared folder on the DS server. If you move the deployment share to a different system, then you need to edit your ...

discussion comment 23 Oct 2008

jdan commented on: Manage drivers conflict in WinPE

Microsoft provides a number of drivers that are already part of WinPE. Altiris then provides a few extra drivers for WinPE in DS. Then the user can add additional drivers for WinPE. There is no way in the UI to delete a driver. But you can ...

discussion comment 23 Oct 2008

jdan commented on: 6.9 SP1

6.9 SP1 was released Oct 16, 2008.

discussion comment 23 Oct 2008

jdan commented on: PXE Linux Drivers

I can't get your link to work. What Altiris KB # do you mean?

discussion comment 23 Oct 2008

jdan commented on: WinPE - Automation - Copy File To

As an alternate, you could try using a script task, and use the FIRM utility which comes with DS. This is a utility that can read and write files from/to file systems. Or what about using a script job, and just use a DOS COPY command?

discussion comment 23 Oct 2008

jdan commented on: How do I report Dagent/Vista issues to Altiris?

-Having AClient and Dagent is confusing In 6.9 SP1, there still are both agents, but the default agent is DAgent - AClient is being phased out -No Admin/user password in Dagent Don't know -DAgent service is seperate from the GUI This is by ...

discussion comment 22 Oct 2008

jdan commented on: Linux PXE missing mass storage driver

This is another Altiris KB that describes the process of building a driver. I forget the KB #, but it is available on the altiris download page where the linux source code for DS is available. The article is a bit old, and refers to DS 6.8 SP2, ...

discussion comment 22 Oct 2008

jdan commented on: DeployAnywhere in DS 6.9 SP1

There is a new checkbox option in the Deploy Image task, that says something like "run deployanywhere". After the image is deployed, then while still running in the WinPE preboot environment, the deployanywhere utility will be run on the client. ...

discussion comment 22 Oct 2008

jdan commented on: Setting Environment Variable

But MS says that pathman only manages "paths". Will it also do any arbitrary environment variable? System environment variables (env variables that will be available to ALL processes), are stored in the registry (for Windows NT - ie 2000, XP, ...

discussion comment 22 Oct 2008

jdan commented on: run chkdsk from PXE

Sounds like it should be possible. Of course you will need to make sure that chkdsk is available in the preboot environment you plan to boot from PXE into. I presume that you plan to use WinPE, but I'm not sure if Microsoft provides chkdsk as ...

discussion comment 22 Oct 2008

jdan commented on: Why does DS mess with PC, even though it's straight capture?

It is disabling networking. If you capture an image with everything as it was, then if you deploy that image to a different system, or multiple systems, then when they boot, they will all come up on the network as the same computer, which will ...

discussion comment 22 Oct 2008

jdan commented on: Altiris Deployment server 6.9 Boot Boot Disk Creator

By the way, I forgot to mention... If you have a number of files that you want to access when you boot into a preboot environment, and if those files are big, such as a disk image, then youo will likely run into problems with running out of ...