Create a bootable WinPE 2.1 DVD with a self-contained restoration image. This was addressed for Linux in a precious Juice Article. I have asked permission from the creator of that article and I modified it for WinPE 2.1
Altiris® Deployment Solution™ software provides a number of tools to remotely image computers. On occasion, you might encounter situations where you need to image a computer without network connectivity or you want the image and tools available locally.
This article outlines the process to create a bootable DVD using automation tools and a computer image. With these tools you can quickly and easily restore an image from a bootable DVD.
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You need to make some manual changes to the configuration before creating the disk.
Files placed in this folder are part of the x: drive when booting up.
Boot Disk Creator currently does not allow to create a standalone WinPE boot, meaning without network support. I found out that this could be overwritten by creating a file called startnet.cmd.
In the configuration display (Summary) drill down to the Windows\system32\ of the configuration do a right click on the system32 folder and select New | Text File. Name the file "startnet.cmd". Finally, in the right side of the configuration you could add batch file commands for startup. The command that most likely be used would be to restore an image.
Type REM "x:\image\rdeploy.exe -md -fx:\image\name_of_your_image.img"
Remove the REM command once you the boot DVD does what you need.
After you have a configuration with the image file added to the "image" folder, you can build the DVD image.
I see that this process requires Deployment Solution 6.9. We are on Symantec Management Console 7.1. We have begun to setup site servers, but we have locations that are very remote, and such a solution would be great for re-imaging at those site.
Is there something comparable to Boot Disk Creator in the 7 series software? Is there another way to accomplish the same thing in the Symantec Management Console 7.1?
Have you tried executing rdeploy manually?
Will this work if I chose DOS instead of WinPE environment?