Windows Embedded Standard 2009 Step-by-Step Deployment – Part III
Check also: Windows Embedded Standard 2009 Step-by-Step Deployment – Part I Windows Embedded Standard 2009 Step-by-Step Deployment – Part II After reviewing the necessary steps for preparing our environment (Post I) and building a custom image for a thin client (Post II); we’ll prepare the remote boot process as well as the remote boot server that will deploy that image on diskless devices. If you prepared the same environment with the XP Embedded version, the process does not have much differences. 1. Set the Image Ready Even though the building process of the image is complete, we need to run a few steps to set the image ready for deployment. The First Boot Agent (FBA) needs to be executed one time to complete this process. By booting the image one time, the FBA makes a hardware detection and finishing some other tasks like network configuration. Also, these tasks executed by the agent can be customized; check this link about FBA. The image is already built, so we are going to take those files to a new disk (virtual in my case) and boot a client machine from there. 1.1 Add a second disk to the machine acting as Remote Boot Server. Create a new partition and set it to “Active”. 1.2 Copy the image files to that new logical disk. 1.3 Like I said, I’m using a virtual environment, so my next step would be to create a […]