Users Guide

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Downloading DTK
This section describes some of the procedures necessary to begin the deployment process, including:
• Downloading and unzipping the Deployment Toolkit (DTK) components, including a comprehensive matrix of DTK
components.
• Setting up a directory structure to facilitate a successful deployment, including a list of the supporting
components that are not included with DTK, but are needed to use DTK.
• Setting up an optimally configured source system.
• Configuring supported RAID controllers.
Extracting DTK Components On Systems Running Windows
DTK components are provided in a self-extracting zip file at support.dell.com. The self-extracting file can be opened on
any system running Microsoft Windows operating system. By default, DTKX.XWINPE- XX.exe files are extracted to the
root directory of your local hard drive,
C:\. You can change this location by giving a different path when extracting the
files, but it is recommended that you keep the DTK default directory structure if you plan to use the sample deployment
scripts provided with DTK.
1. Download the DTK file DTKX.X-WINPE-XX.exe from support.dell.com and save it on your system.
2. After the file downloads, double-click the file. The Dell OpenManage Deployment Toolkit for WindowsPE screen
containing the product and download information appears.
3. Click OK.
4. Click Unzip.
By default, files are unzipped to C:\. You can unzip the DTK components to your local hard drive and then copy them
later to a network volume, or you can change the installation path to an available network share. For example, you
can unzip the files directly to the network share (for example, Z:\) that you plan to use in the deployment process.
NOTE: Do not copy the DTK components to a Novell NetWare network volume. The DTK network-based
deployment is not supported from mapped Novell NetWare systems. The DTK utilities do not run in Windows
PE when Novell’s Client32 is loaded.
The files are unzipped in the directory structure as shown in the following figure.
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