Symantec DEPLOYMENT SOLUTION 6.9 SP4 - Creating a Disk Image

Altiris Deployment Solution™ from Symantec User’s Guide 157
Creating a disk image
This task creates an image of a computer’s hard disk. You can save the disk image as an
.IMG, .EXE, .WIM, .DMG, or .GHO file.
For more information about Ghost, see the Symantec Ghost Imaging Foundation
documentation.
To create an image of a computer, you must boot to DOS, Linux, or WinPE. This requires
that you set up a PXE Server or install an automation partition.
To create a disk image
1. In the Jobs pane in the Deployment Console, select a job.
2. In the Details pane, click Add and select Create Disk Image.
3. In the Create Disk Image dialog, select an imaging tool from the drop-down list.
You can select RapiDeploy (Text mode), RapiDeploy (Graphics mode), RapiDeploy
(Linux mode), ImageX, Mac Image or Ghost.
Advanced: Reset Connection Yes Yes Yes
Advanced: Install Automation Partition Yes
Advanced: Get Inventory Yes Yes Yes
Advanced: Reject Connection Yes Yes Yes
Advanced: Uninstall Windows Agent Yes Yes No
Advanced: Install BIS Certificate No No Yes
Advanced: Remove BIS Certificate No No Yes
Advanced: Apply Regular License Yes Yes Yes
New Job Wizard Yes Yes Yes
New Group Yes Yes Yes
New Computer Yes Yes Yes
Rename Yes Yes Yes
Delete Yes Yes Yes
Change Agent Setting Yes Yes Yes
Permissions Yes Yes Yes
Job Scheduling Wizard Yes Yes Yes
Create an image file by using the New Job Wizard or adding the task when
building new jobs. You can distribute the disk image file using the
Distribute a Disk Image task. This task will run Altiris RDeploy.exe from
the console to capture and migrate hard disk images. See New job wizard
on page 146, Building new jobs on page 150, and Distributing a disk image
on page 162.
Task x64 IA64 SPARC