Symantec DEPLOYMENT SOLUTION 6.9 SP4 Manual page 148

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Distribute a hard disk image using the New Job Wizard or adding the
Distribute Disk Image task when building new jobs. You can create the disk
image file using the Create a Disk Image task. See
page 146, Building new jobs
page 157.
Note
If you deploy a Windows image over a Linux computer or a Linux image over a
Windows computer, you must change the path of the Deployment Agent for the
Windows log file.
To distribute a disk image
1. Open the New Job Wizard and select Deploy and configure computers and click
Next. The Job conditions page appears. (See
wizard on page 150.) Click Next.
or
In the Jobs pane in the Deployment Console, select a job. In the Details pane, click
Add and select Distribute Disk Image.
2. In the Disk Image Source page, click Select a disk image file to select a stored
image file. This lets you set down a new image file from a previously imaged
computer. Enter the name of an existing image file.
If you do not want the Deployment Server to validate the selected path, select
Disable image path validation. This is useful if the image is stored locally, or
if you are retrieving the image from a remote server.
3. Click Select a computer on the network to image a source computer on the
network. Enter the name and location of the source computer to both create an
image and distribute the newly created image file.
This option saves an image of a selected computer's hard disk in its current state
each time the job runs. You can schedule the job to image a specified computer
every time it runs, which updates the image each time.
Select the Save the disk image as a file while distributing option to save
the newly created image file. If you use a reference computer as the image
source, you can also choose to save the image as a file for later use. Enter or
browse to the location where you want to store the file.
4. Select Prepared using Sysprep to use Sysprep to prepare the system for imaging.
5. From the Operating System drop-down list, select the operating system.
Note
Click Add New to open the OS Product Key dialog and select the OS Information.
6. From the Product Key drop-down list, select the product key.
7. Click Advanced Settings to open the Sysprep Advanced Settings dialog. See
Advanced Sysprep settings for distributing a disk image
8. Enter the required Additional Parameters.
New job wizard
on page 150, and Creating a disk image
Setting up conditions in the new job
on page 166.
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