Creating A Disk Image - Symantec ALTIRIS DEPLOYMENT SOLUTION 6.9 SP4 - V1.0 Manual

Creating a disk image

Altiris Deployment Solution™ from Symantec User's Guide
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New Job Wizard
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This task creates an image of a computer's hard disk. You can save the disk image as an
.IMG, .EXE, .WIM, .DMG, or .GHO file.
For more information about Ghost, see the Symantec Ghost Imaging Foundation
documentation.
Create an image file by using the New Job Wizard or adding the task when
building new jobs. You can distribute the disk image file using the
Distribute a Disk Image task. This task will run Altiris RDeploy.exe from
the console to capture and migrate hard disk images. See
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on page 162.
To create an image of a computer, you must boot to DOS, Linux, or WinPE. This requires
that you set up a PXE Server or install an automation partition.
To create a disk image
1. In the Jobs pane in the Deployment Console, select a job.
2. In the Details pane, click Add and select Create Disk Image.
3. In the Create Disk Image dialog, select an imaging tool from the drop-down list.
You can select RapiDeploy (Text mode), RapiDeploy (Graphics mode), RapiDeploy
(Linux mode), ImageX, Mac Image or Ghost.
RDeploy Options
RDeployT is the default imaging executable. This facilitates the imaging of thin client
computers. The following are the RapiDeploy options for imaging:
Graphical Mode (RDeploy). Select this option to run the RDeploy in a GUI mode.
Text Mode (RDeployT). Select this option to run the RDeploy in a text mode.
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Distributing a disk image
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