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My goal is to take our corporate image and place it on a USB drive for technicians to boot and image systems. I would prefer to have the whole image file on the USB disk rather than PXE boot from USB and point to a network share for the image. Does this make sense?

has anyone had any success with this?

thanks,

Cameron

Hi its possible.

1 -- format drive with FAT, and make it bootable with DOS files

Get autoexec.bat to launch Rdeploy, put some stuff in to map to a network share

2 -- create a BARTPE bootable environment and do something similar but you can have a bit more intelligence in the Scripts (ie vb)

DS 6.x can generate WinPE ISO's - you could generate a standalone WinPE ISO (no network connectivity) and use some utilities like WinISO to insert your image file and rdeploy into the ISO, then use another utility to copy the ISO to a USB key and make it bootable.  I can't remember off-hand what utilities do that, but I know I've done it before.

If you can't get the USB key to boot, you could boot to a WinPE standalone CD to boot then access the image from the USB key.