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Question : DELL Remote Floppy Boot Disk
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hello experts and friends. can anyone please help.
Question on how to create a DOS diskette with the DELL Deployment Kit which is then converted using the RemoteFloppyUtility.exe into a Binary Portable Image (*.bin) file. I am confused. I have found the Deployment Kit and the pdf entitled, DTK10UG.pdf.
I have found the following steps but am confused how/ways to get started--boot my laptop into DOS to begin copying files.....any ideas?
Creating a Bootable Diskette or CD to Perform a Scripted Deployment To create bootable diskette that can be used to call a scripted deployment, adhere to the following guidelines: The bootable diskette image must contain, at a minimum, a command parser (COMMAND.COM), a configuration file (CONFIG.SYS), an initial start-up script (AUTOEXEC.BAT), and the appropriate CD drive and network drivers. NOTE: Due to memory constraints in DOS, loading both CD driver support and network driver support on the same bootable diskette is not recommended.
Creating a Bootable Diskette 1 Boot your system in DOS. 2 Insert a blank 1.44-MB diskette in the systems diskette drive. 3 Type cd\dos to get to the DOS directory. 4 Type Format A:/S to format the diskette and then transfer the files that make the diskette bootable. 5 Copy additional files as needed. For example, type the following, pressing after each: copy format*.* a: copy mscdex*.* a: copy xcopy*.* a: copy smartdrv*.* a copy sys*.* a: and so on Create (or edit) an autoexec.bat file that loads the drivers required for the target system devices (network and CD drive drivers). 7 Edit the autoexec.bat file on your bootable DOS diskette to call the DEPLOY.BAT script after the network drivers have loaded. For example, add: call X:\Dell\Toolkit\Template\Scripts\DEPLOY.BAT 8 Create (or edit) a config.sys file that loads the drivers required for the target system devices. If you are using the bootable diskette to call the deployment components from a network share, you are ready to use your bootable diskette to perform a deployment. Go to "Network- Based Remote Deployment." If you are using a bootable CD to call the deployment components from a network share, continue with the next step. 9 Start your CD burning software and generate a DOS bootable CD using the bootable diskette you just created as the boot image. If you are using the bootable CD to call the deployment components from a network share, you are ready to use your bootable CD to perform a deployment. Go to "Network-Based Remote Deployment." If you are using a bootable CD to perform a full system deployment locally, continue with the next step. NOTE: If you decided on local, CD-based deployment, it is assumed that you have already correctly specified the DTK installation path drive letter in the TKENVSET.BAT script to match the drive letter of the CD drive. 10 Edit the autoexec.bat and config.sys files to remove or remark the lines that load the network drivers. 11 Edit the autoexec.bat file on your bootable DOS diskette to call the DEPLOY.BAT script from the deployment directory structure on the CD. For example, change the drive letter from X:\ to E:\: call E:\Dell\Toolkit\Template\Scripts\DEPLOY.BAT 12 Start your CD burning software and generate a DOS bootable CD using the bootable diskette you just edited as the boot image. Then copy the entire deployment directory structure from the share drive to the CD. You are now ready to use your bootable CD to call the deployment components from the directory structure on the CD. Go to "CD-Based Local Deployment." Network-Based Remote Deployment 1 Boot the target system with the DOS bootable deployment diskette (or CD). 2 The autoexec.bat file calls the DEPLOY.BAT script, which calls individual task scripts and utilities from the network share to complete the deployment process.
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Answer : DELL Remote Floppy Boot Disk
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This has hardly anything to do with OpenVMS (runs on VAXen, Alphas & Itanium) .
If you need a bootable DOS Floppy disk then maybe freedos can help you. http://www.freedos.org/
further than that I have no idea for you, I don;'t known the make or type of the hardware you have. Maybe the instructions on how to edit/what to edit are within the named .bat files?
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