Creating an Imaging Hard-Disk Partition

If you want to set up a workstation for unattended imaging operations and are unable to use Preboot Services (PXE), you can create a Desktop Management Workstation Imaging (Linux) partition on the hard disk. If you make the partition big enough, you can even store an image of the workstation's hard disk, which can be useful if the workstation becomes misconfigured or corrupted when the network connection is lost.

IMPORTANT:  Installing the Desktop Management Imaging partition will destroy all data on that hard drive.

To create a Desktop Management Imaging partition:

1. Do one of the following to create the imaging boot device to boot the workstation from:

   • (only SP1 or earlier) Create imaging boot diskettes (see Create Imaging Boot Diskettes)
   • Create an imaging CD/DVD (see Preparing Imaging Boot CDs or DVDs)

2. Proceed with Step 5 of Enabling a Workstation for Auto-Imaging Operations.

   These steps include booting the workstation and installing the partition on it.