Bootable CD

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Alexey Gravanov

Hi folks,

Is it possible somehow create one bootable CD for booting device from this
CD and deploy image located on same CD to device without or with minimum
button presses? It's quite important for production, especially when they
receivingraw devices and have to deploy more than couple of hundreds devices
per day.. :)

regards, Alexey.
 
Hi Alexey,

Yes.

You have many choices.

To make XPe that will boot from CD in headless mode and do reimaging of device.
To use dos programs for reimaging device.
To make small program that will be loaded by BIOS from CD. That program can do raw read from CD and raw write to HDD. This is easy
to make and it will do the trick or reimaging.

Best regards,
Slobodan
 
Ahha, thanks :)

Slobodan Brcin (eMVP) said:
Hi Alexey,

Yes.

You have many choices.

To make XPe that will boot from CD in headless mode and do reimaging of
device.
To use dos programs for reimaging device.
To make small program that will be loaded by BIOS from CD. That program
can do raw read from CD and raw write to HDD. This is easy
to make and it will do the trick or reimaging.

Best regards,
Slobodan
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Alexey,

I think the easiest (or the quickest :-) ) way for you would be in creating an XPe image with or without headless support (depending
on your re-imaging specs - whether you want to show any UI or not).
Using tools like diskpart, format, etc. you can automate scripting for partitioning and formatting the target media.
Then you either use SDIMgr to expand prepared .sdi file with a golden image captured in it to the media and reboot.
Or you use other tools (xcopy, zip/unzip, etc.) to deploy the image.
You can also use ghost or etc. Some tweaks, however, may be around cloning and EWF enabling in place.
 
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