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18 Tivoli Provisioning Manager for OS Deployment in a Retail Environment
2.1 Introduction
The first step is to choose what to deploy. With Tivoli Provisioning Manager for
OS Deployment, you can either clone a machine or you can create an
unattended setup profile. The former option copies the operating system together
with the installed software from a source machine to a destination machine. The
latter performs an automatic installation of an operating system as though you
are at the machine with the installation CDs.
We start this chapter with the steps to perform an unattended installation of a
Windows XP profile with some associated device drivers that will be deployed on
a bare metal machine. This scenario is most likely the way a retail’s IT
organization would start their automated deployment of terminals unless they
already had a template image suitable for cloning. Next, we describe the cloning
process of a Windows XP machine and the customization process of the
captured image to prepare for the mass deployment of the clone.
For both the unattended set up and the cloning deployments, we use Windows
XP, Service Pack 2. In terms of Tivoli Provisioning Manager for OS Deployment
we will do the following
Create an unattended Windows XP installation profile using Windows XP SP2
installation CDs
Clone a machine having the Windows XP operating system
For a target machine, we are using several different IBM SurePOS system types.
They all meet the following minimum requirements listed below:
PXE-compliant bootrom, version 2.00 or higher
Minimal CPU: PentiumR type level
Minimal RAM memory: 128 MB
Video Electronics Standarts Association (VESA) release 2.0 or later,
compliant Video BIOS to get high resolution (VGA fallback is always possible
in case of incompatibility). However, Tivoli Provisioning Manager for OS
Deployment can also work on machines without a monitor attached.
Either a traditional Advanced Technology Attachment (ATA) drive with Ultra™
Direct Memory access (DMA) support if speed is required or any
BIOS-supported hard drive.
Desktop Management Interface (DMI) support for collecting hardware
information, such as model and serial number.
The machines we used had at least 8 GB of diskspace since the Windows XP
installation and the hidden partition used by Tivoli Provisioning Manager for OS