Neoware e140 - Thin Client User Manual page 210

The Image Manager Console
194 Creating a Volume
names of the CVol files are directly derived from the related Volume
name and changing this name while the volume is mounted by
Neoware Image Manager client will crash the clients.
The Console will display a warning when you want to change an
existing volume name
Specify the name of the hard disk image file to use in the
box (click the ... button to browse for it), or enter the complete or rel-
ative (to the directory where the NVDD server module is located)
path and filename if it is not in the same directory as the NVDD
server module.
CAUTION:
You can change the File name of a volume currently in use by
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Neoware Image Manager client only when the new file is a copy
of the old file. If this is not the case, changing the file name of a
volume currently in use would be equivalent to hot-swapping the
system disk of your clients with another system disk!
If the volume is not currently mounted by Image Manager clients
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and you change the File name to an HDD image file that is not
an exact copy of the previous one and there are existing CVol
files associated with the volume, you must delete the CVol files
(or make sure the client will all use Volatile mode) before the cli-
ents can actually mount the volume.
Description
The field enables you to provide a brief description of
the volume which will be displayed on the client screen when it
starts, when multi-boot is enabled (when the client can boot off vari-
ous volumes).
Physical Parameters
The
parameters" of the volume and whether it is used as a boot drive or
as storage. The single-volume configuration file that Client Builder
creates contains the parameters (especially geometry parameters) to
be used with the corresponding volume.
options enable you to specify the "physical
File name