Users Guide

Running The Deployment Scripts

This chapter provides best practices, procedures, and scenarios for using the Deployment Toolkit (DTK)

to perform pre‑operating system configuration tasks and to install supported operating systems on

supported Dell systems.

After you have populated the deployment directory structure with all necessary files and carefully edited

the deployment scripts and configurations files, you are ready to begin the final stage of the deployment

process. Before running the deployment, however, create specific deployment media to facilitate your

chosen deployment method. The common deployment scenarios are:

• Media-Based Local Deployment For Systems Running Microsoft Windows

• Media-Based Local Deployment With Networking Enabled For Systems Running Windows

• Deployment Using Removable Boot Media With A Network Connection (Media-Based) For Systems

Running Windows

• Deployment Using Removable Boot Media Without A Network Connection (Media-Based) Connection

For Systems Running Windows

• Network Based Deployment For Systems Running Windows

• Using A Third-Party Deployment Solution Framework For Systems Running Windows

• Deployment Using Dell Provided Embedded Linux

• Deployment Using Customized Embedded Linux

• Using A Third-Party Deployment Solution Framework For Systems Running Linux

Deployment Using Removable Boot Media With A

Network Connection (Media-Based) For Systems Running

Windows

For media-based deployment with a network connection:

1. Create a deployment media containing a bootable image with the appropriate media and network

drivers, along with any utilities needed to connect to a network share. The deployment media

initiates the deployment process by mapping to the network share where the deployment directory

structure resides.

2. Insert the bootable media into the appropriate drive of the system to be deployed.

3. Boot or reboot the system.

The configuration process begins and the following tasks are completed:

– Windows PE or Linux, as the case may be, is installed from the media.

– Network shares are mapped.

– The DTK scripts execute the necessary DTK utilities from the network share or the media itself.

– Configuration information is read from the network share.

– The operating system is installed from a network share. This installation may happen after your

system reboots.