9.4 Booting the POSBranch Terminal

After you have burned the CDBoot ISO image to a CD, you can use the CD to boot and configure the POSBranch terminal.

NOTE:If there are multiple CD drives in the Point of Service terminal, there is no way to designate which CD drive to use; the system chooses the first one it finds. If the Point of Service terminal does not find the drive with the boot CD, it returns BIOS errors. To correct the problem, insert the CD in the bootable CD drive.

Depending on the client image you used to build the POSBranch image (Minimal, Java, Browser, or Desktop), you should note the following restrictions:

The behavior of Point of Service terminals booting from CD is similar to Point of Service terminals that receive the first and second stage boot image over the LAN from a Branch Server:

  1. The POSBranch image is installed to a RAM or hard disk drive on the Point of Service terminal.

    The partition information resides in the config.image file located on the CD.

    NOTE:For electronic distributions, the partition information is created based on LDAP entries on the Administration Server.

  2. The installed client image is booted from the RAM or hard disk drive on the Point of Service terminal.