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Setting Up Workstations for Imaging 445

Novell Confidential Manual (99a) 28 October 2003

41 Setting Up Workstations for Imaging

The following sections cover procedures to prepare workstations for imaging. The procedures that

are applicable to you depend on your imaging deployment strategy. For more information, see

Chapter 39, “Common Imaging Deployment Strategies,” on page 439.

 “Preparing an Imaging Boot Device or Method” on page 445

 “Preparing a Workstation for Imaging” on page 451

 “Imaging a Server” on page 455

Preparing an Imaging Boot Device or Method

The Novell

ZENworks

for Desktops (ZfD) imaging engine that performs the actual imaging of

the workstation is a Linux application. Therefore, the workstation must be temporarily booted to

Linux while the imaging is performed.

Unless you use Preboot Services, you need to prepare a boot device that has the Linux kernel, ZfD

Workstation Imaging engine, and network drivers installed. The boot method you use can be any

of the following:

 “Preboot Services (PXE)” on page 445

 “Diskettes” on page 446

 “CD” on page 448

 “Hard-Disk Partition” on page 448

This section also contains information about adding Linux drivers to your boot device or method,

and information about booting to Linux with a non-English keyboard. For these topics, see

“Additional Information About Booting to Linux” on page 449.

Preboot Services (PXE)

PXE (Preboot Execution Environment) is an industry-standard protocol that allows a workstation

to boot up and execute a program from the network before the workstation operating system starts.

PXE uses DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol) and TFTP (Trivial File Transfer

Protocol). The PXE environment is loaded from either the NIC in flash memory or read-only

memory, or in the same memory as the system BIOS.

ZfD 4 Preboot Services uses PXE to find out if there is imaging work specified for a workstation

and to provide the workstation with the files necessary to boot to the ZfD imaging environment.

Before you can use Preboot Services, you need to do the following:

 Install the ZfD 4 Imaging and Preboot Services (PXE Support) components on your imaging

server.

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