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Dell™ OptiPlex™ FX160

Re-Imaging Guide

Model DC01T

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Model DC01T

August 2008 P/N H310K Rev. A01

Dell OptiPlex FX160 Re-Imaging Guide 3

Dell™ OptiPlex™ FX160 Re-Imaging Guide

The Dell OptiPlex FX160 computer with an internal flash card hard drive is

preloaded with either a Microsoft®Windows®XP Embedded or SUSE®

Linux Enterprise Thin Client (SLETC) operating system. However, when

system updates are released, or special configurations are required, the

internal FX160 flash card or hard drive can be re-imaged.

Re-Imaging the FX160 Computer With Microsoft Windows

For the FX160 Windows XP Embedded operating system, updates are

provided on a bootable DVD. Booting the FX160 computer from the DVD

opens a utility that writes the FX160 flash card. Additional software, such as

drivers for a wireless card, are loaded separately.

The DVD update disk can be transferred to a bootable USB flash drive using a

Windows system with Microsoft Windows Automation Installation Kit

(WAIK) software. The update can then installed on the FX160 flash card

when booting the FX160 computer from the USB flash drive.

Re-Imaging an FX160 Computer With the Update DVD

CAUTION: Re-imaging your FX160 computer will erase all data from the hard

drive or flash card. Back up your system to an external device before re-imaging

your computer.

Power off the FX160 computer.

Attach an external USB DVD reader drive to the FX160 computer.

Power on the FX160 computer. When the BIOS window options list

appears (in the upper right-corner of the screen) press <F12> to access

the Boot Device menu.

In the Boot Device selection window, use the arrow keys to highlight the

DVD drive you attached.

Insert the bootable Windows update DVD into the DVD reader and press

Enter

. A Windows Preinstallation Environment (PE) system will initialize.

To save the current FX160 system image, click the

Capture System Image

button and follow the prompts to write the system image to an external

device. When the capture operation completes, the imaging tool window

reappears.

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NOTICE: By default, all existing files are erased and system images are installed

on the first available boot drive as configured in the BIOS System Boot Device

Priority. Back up your system to an external device before re-imaging your

computer

To install a new system image, click the

Install System Image

button. In

the browse window, select the system image to install, then click

Install

When the installation completes, restart the system, booting from the

drive that was imaged.

Re-Imaging an FX160 Computer With the a Bootable USB Flash Drive (UFD)

The FX160 computer can be re-imaged with a bootable Windows PE RAM

Disk on a UFD. This UFD is built manually.

Create a Bootable Windows UFD Device

CAUTION: Re-imaging your FX160 computer will erase all data from the hard

drive or flash card. Back up your system to an external device before re-imaging

your computer.

What you will need:

• A workstation computer with Microsoft Vista or Microsoft XP that

provides all tools and source files.

• Access to a computer running Windows Vista or a Windows PE session.

• A UFD device. The size of the UFD device must be at least 64MB larger

than your Windows PE image plus any additional files that you include.

• FX160 Windows update DVD.

Use the Copype.cmd script to create a bootable Windows PE RAM disk on

a UFD device. With Windows PE RAM a computer can be restarted for

deployment or recovery.

NOTE: Ensure that you have sufficient memory to support the size of your Windows

PE image and any additional applications.

Dell OptiPlex FX160 Re-Imaging Guide 5

NOTE: For additional information about this procedure, see the Windows

Preinstallation Environment User Guide sections "Include a Custom Script in a

Windows PE Image" and "Walkthrough: Create a Custom Windows PE Image". This

information is part of the help system of the WAIK software.

Download and install the latest version of Microsoft WAIK software onto

the workstation computer.

NOTE:

The download file is very large (about 1GB)

Click

Start

, point to

All Programs

, point to

Windows OPK

Windows

AIK

, and then click

Windows PE Tools Command Prompt

NOTE: Opening the command prompt window automatically sets environment

variables to point to all the necessary tools. By default, all tools are installed at

C:\Program Files\<version>\Tools, where <version> can be Windows OPK or

Windows AIK.

At the command prompt, run the command:

copype.cmd x86 <dest>

where

<dest

> is a local directory for this procedure, such as

c:\winpe_x86

. This script creates the

<dest

> directory and copies in

all necessary files for the x86 architecture to the directory. In this example,

the following directories are created:

\winpe_x86

\winpe_x86\ISO

\winpe_x86\mount

At the command prompt, mount the base Windows PE image

(

Winpe.wim

) to the

\mount

directory by using

ImageX:

imagex /mountrw c:\winpe_x86\winpe.wim 1

c:\winpe_x86\mount

Copy the following files from the update DVD to the

winpe_x86\mount\windows\system32\

directory:

winpeshl.ini

DellImageDeploy.exe

Comctl32.dll

Oledlg.dll

Wimgapi.dll

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NOTE: Image preparation, performed in the next step, is not required for the Dell

Image Deployment tool. Skipping this step allows future updates to be added to

your image by simply remounting boot.wim and copying the update files to the

correct directories.

Prepare the image with the

peimg /prep

command. This command

removes non-installed packages from the image to reduce the size of the

final image:

peimg /prep c:\winpe_x86\mount\Windows

Commit the changes to the original image file (

Winpe.wim

) using the

ImageX /unmount

option with the

/commit

option:

imagex /unmount c:\winpe_x86\mount /commit

Replace the default

Boot.wim

in the

\winpe_x86\ISO

directory

with your new customized image. The image must be called

Boot.wim

CAUTION: When a UFD device is formatted, all files on the device are erased.

Prepare the UFD device. Use Diskpart to format the UFD with a Windows

Vista or Windows PE environment.

Within a Windows Vista operating system or Windows PE session,

insert your UFD device.

Format the entire UFD as a single FAT32 drive. The following

example assumes the UFD is

disk 1

. Open a command window and

enter the following:

diskpart

select disk 1

clean

create partition primary size=<size of device>

select partition 1

active

format fs=fat32

assign

exit

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On the workstation computer, copy the entire

\winpe_x86\ISO

directory to the UFD device. You can create the directory structure

manually, or use

xcopy

to replicate the entire structure and contents of

\ISO

. If using

xcopy

, enter:

xcopy c:\winpe_x86\iso\*.* /s /e /f f:\

where

is the letter of your technician computer hard disk and

is the

letter of the UFD device.

Remove the UFD device from the technician computer.

Re-Imaging Windows on the FX160 Computer With a UFD Device

CAUTION: Re-imaging your FX160 computer will erase all data from the hard

drive or flash card. Back up your system to an external device before re-imaging

your computer.

Power off the FX160 computer.

Plug the UFD device with the bootable Windows XP Embedded image

update into a USB port.

Power on the FX160 computer. When the BIOS window options list

appears (in the upper right-corner of the screen) press <F12> to access

the Boot Menu.

In the Boot Device selection window, use the arrow keys to highlight the

UFD device with the Windows XP Embedded image update, then press

<Enter

. When the Windows PE system is initialized, the Windows XP

Embedded imaging tool is launched.

To save the current FX160 system image, click the

Capture System Image

button and follow the prompts to save the system image to an external

device. When the capture operation completes, the imaging tool window

reappears.

CAUTION: By default, all existing files are erased and system images are

installed on the first available boot drive as configured in the BIOS System Boot

Device Priority. Back up your system to an external device before re-imaging your

computer.

To install a new system image, click the

Install System Image

button. In

the browse window, select the system image to install, then click

Install

When the installation completes, restart the system, booting from the

drive that was imaged.

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Re-Imaging the FX160 Computer With SUSE Linux Enterprise Thin Client

The FX160 computer can be re-imaged with an SLETC update using a

bootable USB flash drive built with the update CD and either a Linux or

Windows computer system. After the FX160 computer is booted to the USB

flash drive, the Thin Client Imaging utility is used to copy SLETC to the

FX160 flash card (hard drive). The minimum size for the USB flash drive is

512MB.

Create a Linux Bootable USB Flash Drive With Linux

The update CD provided includes these three files:

• Documentation (

*.pdf

• SLETC update file (

*.raw

). The name of this file reflects the revision

level of SLETC.

• Windows USB flash drive image installer (

USBDiskImageTool.exe

Only the update file is needed to build the bootable USB flash drive.

CAUTION: This procedure formats the UFD device used to load the system image.

All files on the device are erased.

CAUTION: Some of the commands entered in this procedure are performed with

administrative privileges. Use extreme care to prevent typing errors, which could

result in serious damage to your Linux operating system.

On the Linux desktop, open a terminal window.

If not logged in as a "root" user, enter the command:

su -

Mount the CD-ROM containing the SLETC update. Many Linux

distributions mount the CD automatically when it is loaded. For this

procedure, it is assumed that the CD is mounted as:

/media/Novell_SLETC_for_Dell

Insert a USB flash drive into a USB port.

Determine whether or not the USB flash drive is mounted:

Enter:

mount

Examine the output to determine if the USB flash drive is mounted.

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If the drive is mounted, unmount the drive:

umount </dev/DEVICENAME>

where

</dev/DEVICENAME> is the device name of the USB flash

drive.

6Determine the device name of your USB flash drive:

If the USB flash drive was automatically mounted (and subsequently

unmounted), use the device name assigned by Linux in the steps

below.

If the USB flash drive was

not

previously mounted, generate a

dmesg

log to show the newly connected devices.

Enter:

dmesg

Examine the log messages to determine the device name for the

USB flash

drive

Write the image from the CD-ROM to the USB flash drive:

dd bs=1M if=<SLETC update> of=</dev/DEVICENAME>

where

is the name of the SLETC image on the

CD-ROM (for example:

/media/Novell_SLETC_for_Dell/Novell-SLETC-10-SP2-

1-for-Dell.raw

), and

</dev/DEVICENAME>

is the device name

of the

USB flash drive

When the write operation is complete, remove the USB flash drive from

the Linux system and use it to re-image the FX160 computer (see

"Re-Imaging SLETC on an FX160 Computer With a USB Flash Drive" on

page 10).

Create a Linux Bootable USB Flash Drive With Windows

The update CD provided includes these three files:

• Documentation (

*.pdf

)

• SLETC update file (

*.raw

). The name of this file reflects the revision

level of SLETC.

• Windows USB flash drive image installer (

USBDiskImageTool.exe

)

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To create the bootable USB flash drive with WIndows, use the program

USBDiskImageTool.exe

to write the SLETC file to the

USB flash drive

NOTE: The Windows operating system used to build the bootable USB flash drive

must include Microsoft .NET Framework v2.0 or later.

CAUTION: This procedure formats the USB flash drive used to load the system

image. All files on the drive are erased.

On a system running Windows XP or Windows Vista, insert the SLETC

update CD into a CD-ROM drive, and the USB flash drive into a USB

port.

Open an Explorer window that shows the contents of the update CD.

Find and open

USBDiskImageTool.exe

. If using Windows Vista, respond

appropriately to User Access Control messages to continue.

In the

USB Disk Image Tool

window, click the

Browse

button and select

the SLETC update file on the update CD.

In the field

Choose a USB device

, use the pull-down menu to select the

USB flash drive.

Click

Write Disk Image

to initiate the write operation. Allow the

Write

...

and

Verify

... operations to complete fully before removing the USB flash

drive.

When the message

Disk was imaged successfully

message appears, click

Remove the USB flash drive and the update CD from the Windows

system.

Re-Imaging SLETC on an FX160 Computer With a USB Flash Drive

CAUTION: Re-imaging your FX160 computer will erase all data from the hard

drive or flash card. Back up your system to an external device before re-imaging

your computer.

Shut down the operating system and power off the computer.

Insert the bootable flash drive with the SLETC image into a USB port.

Power on the FX160 computer.

When the BIOS window options list appears (in the upper right-corner of

the screen) press

F12> to access the Boot Device menu.

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