Adding A New Desktop & Upgrading Hardware - Neoware e140 - Thin Client User Manual

Adding a New Desktop & Upgrading Hardware
Neoware Image Manager provides a set of
enable you to modify a hard disk image so that it is able to serve a
range of desktops (PCs and thin clients) with heterogeneous hard-
ware configurations. The UbiBoot utilities are used whenever you
want to add a new desktop or upgrade hardware. Note that it is not
always possible to create a single image that will be usable with all
your hardware and associated features. For example, you cannot cre-
ate an image that will boot both mono-core and dual-core processor
clients that will use the two cores of the dual-core clients.
The administrator has two choices when building an image that can
support heterogeneous hardware:
1
Boot the new desktop you want to support on a local device
(HDD for instance) using the same OS version as the one in the
virtual disk image (e.g. Windows XP Professional with Service
Pack 2). Launch
will create a file that contains "boot details" about the new desk-
top to support. This file is then given to
is running on a Neoware Image Manager client booted off the
disk image you want to modify. UbiBoot Inserter modifies the
existing virtual disk image so that it can be used to boot the new
desktop type. The new desktop can then be booted off the image
and Windows will be able to detect the unknown hardware.
Neoware UbiBoot
2
Launch
Image Manager virtual drive to enhance it (this will enable the
operating system on this virtual drive to boot unknown hardware
when booted off an actual hard disk drive). Use
Cloner
to transfer the hard disk image to an actual hard disk and
make it boot on the new hardware. The hard disk learns to rec-
ognize the new hardware configuration, then the administrator
only has to rebuild the image on the server using Client Builder.
Note that Neoware UbiBoot needs to be launched each time just
prior to connecting the hard disk to each new hardware configu-
ration.
Adding a New Desktop & Upgrading Hardware
Overview of Neoware Image Manager
UbiBoot Extractor
on the new desktop. This
on a client actually booted off an
UbiBoot
utilities that can
UbiBoot Inserter
which
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