Novell ZENWORKS 10 CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT SP3 - PREBOOT SERVICES AND IMAGING REFERENCE 10.3 16-04-2010 User Manual page 55

This creates a bootable diskette that enables a device that cannot otherwise boot from a CD or
DVD to boot from the imaging CD or DVD. Any
included in the copy written to the bootable diskette.
6 After the diskette is created, click Close.
7 Insert both this diskette and the imaging CD or DVD on the device to be imaged, then boot the
device.
The diskette enables the imaging CD or DVD to be booted by the device.
Creating a Preboot Bootable Image
You can create a PXE Linux configuration file that points to a Preboot Bootable Image (PBI) file,
which is a raw image of a bootable diskette. This enables you to use PXE to utilize the bootable
diskette information from a
Preboot information.
To create a PBI configuration file and then the PBI file:
1 On a management device, run
Windows:
%ZENWORKS_HOME%\bin\preboot\
Linux:
/opt/novell/zenworks/zdm/winutils/
For the Linux server path, to use a Windows management device to access to this directory you
might need to configure Samba.
The following dialog box is displayed after you click the Preboot Bootable Image tab:
2 In the Configuration File Settings section on the Preboot Bootable Image page, fill in the fields:
Kernel Parameters: To use the kernel parameters in the
and UNDI Stacks in Memory option.
PBI Filename: Specify a filename for the PBI file, including the
not specify a path here.
file on a TFTP server, instead of booting from the diskette for that
.pbi
zmediacreator.exe
configurations made here are
settings.txt
from your Imaging Server:
option, select the Keep PXE
keeppxe
filename extension. Do
.pbi
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