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KACE Systems Deployment Appliance 8.2 Common Documents - Administrator Guide

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Copy an image to a USB flash device

Copy an image to a USB flash device

After you create a bootable USB flash device with the KACE Boot Environment loaded, you can copy an image from the appliance to the USB device to deploy the image manually from the USB device.

Verify that the captured image that you want to deploy was captured from the C drive and not the D drive; otherwise, when you insert the USB device in to the target device, the appliance USB image installs the image on to the USB device instead of the C drive.
1.
On the left navigation pane, click Deployments, then click System Images to display the Systems Images page.
2.
Under Name, select the appropriate image to display the System Image Detail page.
3.
Select the Create bootable USB flash drive image for this System Image check box.
4.
Click Save.
A background process starts building the installer for the system image.

Instructions appear on the USB Flash Drive Installer page on how to get the USB image on to the flash drive.

Create a USB device driver directory

Create a USB device driver directory

USB devices do not connect and mount to the drivers in the appliance share directory. You can manually create the drivers share directory structure on the USB device, and copy the contents from the appliance drivers share directory to the USB device.

For versions 3.6 and higher:

1.
Browse to usb:\KACE\ and verify that the drivers_postinstall directory exists. If not, create a drivers_postinstall directory.
2.
Access the drivers_postinstall share directory on the appliance, for example: \\appliance\drivers_postinstall.
3.
Copy the contents from the feed_tools directory from the appliance drivers_postinstall directory on to the USB device drivers_postinstall directory.

Add drivers to USB images

Add drivers to USB images

When you deploy an image from a USB device and the device does not connect and mount to the appliance drivers_postinstall share directory, you can manually copy the drivers to the USB device by importing the drivers to the appliance, and creating a mid-level post-installation task to add the drivers.

For information on adding drivers to a USB image deployment, see https://support.quest.com/kb/SOL111365, then log in to the KACE Systems Deployment Appliance Administrator Console.
1.
On the left navigation pane, click Settings to expand the section, then click Package Management, and click Import KACE SDA Packages.
2.
Select the package that you what you want to import.
3.
Select Choose Action > Import Selected.
4.
On the left navigation pane, click Deployments, then click System Images to display the Systems Images page.
5.
Select the image to display the System Image Detail page.
6.
Under Installation Plan, move the task that you created to add the drivers from the Available Mid-Level Tasks column to the Run Mid-Level Tasks column.
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Add any other pre-installation and post-installation tasks to configure the deployment.
Adding the appliance IP address to the Internet Options Trusted Sites section (on the target device with the image that you want to capture to a USB device) ensures that the post-installation tasks run successfully after the device reboots in to the OS.
8.
Click Save.
Create a bootable USB flash drive image. See Install a boot environment to a USB device.

Download the boot environment as bootable ISO

Download the boot environment as bootable ISO

You can download a bootable ISO to a USB flash drive for the KACE Boot Environment (KBE) or for the NetBoot environment.

If you are downloading a KACE Boot Environment, verify that the KBE that you are downloading has all of the required drivers. If you add or remove any drivers before downloading the KBE, you must rebuild the KBE.
1.
On the left navigation pane, click Deployments, then click Boot Environments to display the Boot Environments page.
2.
Select the boot environment that you want to install to the USB flash device to display the Boot Environment Detail page.
3.
Select the Create bootable USB Flash drive image for this Boot Environment check box and save the file.
This process creates a bootable USB image and displays the Status as Completed.
4.
On the Boot Environment Detail page, select Download bootable USB flash drive image for this Boot Environment.
5.
Optional. Indicate how you want to boot this environment.
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If you want the user to choose a PXE boot using the memdisk utility, select Use Memdisk to boot this Boot Environment for BIOS clients. Use this option for legacy BIOS boot environments to enable PXE boots.
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If you clear this option, the boot environment will use wimboot.
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Click Download bootable ISO for this Boot Environment to start the download.
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