Deployment Solution

We are currently running Deployment Solution for Clients version 6.9 SP1 and Notivication Server 6.0.6074 on a virtual Windows 2003 server (VMWare). Since the DS server is installed in VMWare, we wish to not to point to the server ( C:\Program Files\Altiris\eXpress\Deployment Server\Images) for the location of our images and applications. I have found some documentation on how to setup alternative storage locations, however only with PXE configuration. Our environment is static IP, so we cannot use PXE. We will be using WinPE for our boot CD’s.

Can you direct me to some documentation or details on how to configure DS to point to a different mapped location for its image and application store without using PXE? Also, once this is configured, how do we set the new mapped share as default for all new clients? This is a new deployment of DS and NS so we currently have only a couple of test computers with the Altiris client. We don't need to worry about updating a number of existing computers.

Thanks for any help!
 

1. when you make your boot cd add mappings for the location of share for the images and a share for your applications, ie: imageshare = i:, program share = P: 
2. In your distribute disk image job use the drive letter instead of .\ and check "Disable image path validation." ie: I:\MyImage.img
You shouldn't have this problem because you are not using PXE but make sure the automation pre-boot environment is set to default automation so you can use CDs instead of PXE. 
If you are going to be deploying from multiple locations and you dont want to pull images\files over the WAN then have different cds for each location and use the same drive letters for the location of the images\files. 

For example you have a site in New York and a site in California
The CA CD will map i to CA\Images and p to CA\Programs (assuming CA is the name of the server). 
Then on the NY cd, map i to NY\Images and p to NY\Programs.
This will allow you to use the same job on computers in multiple locations.