Imaging Boot Disk Creator (ZIMGBOOT.EXE)

Purpose

Use this utility at a Windows workstation to create or update imaging boot diskettes, so you can boot computers to perform imaging tasks.

IMPORTANT: You can update imaging diskettes only in the sense that the same physical diskettes can be reused. When updating the second diskette or the optional language diskette, you must reformat the diskette before updating it. The first diskette can be reused without reformatting.

Location

This utility is located in the ZENWORKS\IMAGING folder in your ZfD installation (on the imaging server).

Format and Function

To start this utility stand-alone (from Windows), double-click the ZIMGBOOT.EXE file. There are no command-line parameters. To start the utility from ConsoleOne, click Tools > ZENworks Utilities > Imaging > Create or Modify Boot Diskette.

For the overall process to create imaging boot diskettes, see Creating Imaging Boot Diskettes in Workstation Imaging in Getting Started. When creating the diskettes, you can configure various aspects of the imaging bootup process, including:

How to communicate on the IP network, if necessary
How automated the imaging bootup process should be
Which imaging server to contact during automated operations
How large the imaging (Linux) partition on the hard disk should be, if one will be created
Which language support (English or otherwise) to load for the keyboard

For details on these configuration options, see the online help in the utility. The configuration settings you make in the utility are saved to the SETTINGS.TXT file on the second imaging diskette. You can edit this file after creating the diskettes if needed. For details on the format of this file, see Imaging Bootup Parameters (SETTINGS.TXT).

If you need to create imaging diskettes to boot with a non-English keyboard but the language you need isn't listed in the utility, see Imaging Bootup Languages (ZIMGLANG.INI).