One click virtual partition feature in GSS 2.5.1
A One-Click Virtual Partition is a zip file, an executable, and a shortcut that runs the executable with the zip file as a parameter. You can store this on a network share and run it from the destination machine simply by clicking the shortcut. One-Click Virtual Partition.
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How to create one click virtual partition
Open Ghost Boot Wizard (GBW) from GSS 2.5.1 and select Windows PE pre-os
Follow the default option and click NEXT
Go to VP folder and double click on vpartition shortcut. It will prepare machine to boot into virtual partition. While preparation, it checks whether critical drivers (MSD and network drivers) are present into VP package to boot the machine into virtual partition
How to prepare machine with automation folder using PEinstall.exe from DS 7.6
We have PEinstall.exe in DS 7.6 which got build during build process. PEinstall.exe is automation folder exe which has similar functionality like one click virtual partition. We can leverage on this EXE to boot the machines into automation in GSS 3.0.There are couple of command lines available to boot machine into automation.
Steps :
Copy PEinstall.exe on client machine and execute it. It will create boot folder c:\drive and extract the required binaries as follows
You can find autoutil.exe at location c:\boot\altiris\iso\autoutil.exe which has command lines to boot the machine into automation.
Autoutil.exe –a will boot the machine into automation. See command line execution below. After command is executed and shows result [0=EXIT_SUCCESS] it means machine ready to boot into automation.
Machine started booting into automation
Machine successfully booted into automation
If you exit from automation partition, Windows boot manager will show you two options to boot the machine into one of the os. First one is operating system installed on system and another one to boot via automation partition
There are bunch of command line available if you execute autoutil.exe /? as below
