Building The Master Image - F6 Install; Summary - HP Blade dc72 Deployment Manual

Introduction
This white paper provides the step-by-step instructions necessary to create and deploy operating system
images onto HP Compaq dc7700 Business PCs with RAID Striping (mode 0) or RAID Mirroring (mode 1)
capability.
To create and deploy images:
1. Find the RAID drivers, and then create the PXE images.
2. Build the reference system, install the RAID drivers, and then create the RAID-Ready operating system
image.
3. RAID configure the target machines, and then deploy the operating system images.
This process has three methods. Depending on administrator needs, you can install RAID drivers:
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Into a live operating system.
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Into an offline operating system image.
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Along with a new operating system using an F6 install.
Each of these methods requires different prerequisites for each environment. Please refer to the appropri-
ate prerequisites for your network later in this paper.
Warning: Creating RAID volumes may destroy any data on the target system's hard drives.

Summary

In this section, you install the RAID drivers into the Windows PE PXE image so that the PXE operating sys-
tem recognizes RAID. You can omit this step if you use a DOS PXE image.
Installing RAID Drivers in PXE images - Windows PE
If you build a RAID-enabled master image:
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From scratch, go to "Building the Master Image – F6 Install" on page 3. Then proceed to "Image
Deployment" on page 5.
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From a previously-built image and you want to insert the RAID drivers into a live operating system, go
to "Building the Master Image – Online Prebuilt Operating System Image" on page 4. Then proceed
to "Image Deployment" on page 5.
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From a previously-built image and you want to insert the RAID drivers into an offline operating system
image, go to "Building the Master Image – Online Prebuilt Operating System Image" on page 4.
Then proceed to "Image Deployment" on page 5.
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